© Eblana Photonics Ltd.

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H2020 Seminar, Athlone on 5-6-14

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Outline

About Eblana Photonics

FP7 experiences

Horizon 2020 hopes

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Who we are and what we do

• Design, manufacture & sales of laser diodes and

optoelectronic components

• Dublin based, 12 years

• Developed technology for low complexity laser

manufacture using nanometer-precise topographies

Applied to:

• Optical fibre communications

• Gas sensing, metrology, lidar, medical imaging...

• R&D for major National and EU projects, European

Space Agency

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1μmd1

d2

d3

Distance accuracyto nm scale

Eblana Laser Size Scale

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What we offer

Spectrally pure laser sources from the red

(633nm) to the (2100nm)

Narrow linewidth lasers

Custom laser wavelengths & designs

High volume and speciality products

Chips to advanced packages (plug & play)

Chips

Cans

Modules

DX Modules

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Research & Development

Eblana spends significant time and resources on R&D

- internal

- direct customer-driven

- National, EU and space agency

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Reasons for FP7 involvement

- Fund R&D activities

- Work in leading EU R&D projects

- Work with leading EU R&D universities

- Product development

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FP7 Projects

- PHASORS 2008-2010 ‘STREP’ budget €400k 75% Funded

- MODE-GAP 2010-2015 ‘IP’ budget €1.5M 75% Funded

- QUATERNIAN 2011-2015 ‘SME call’ €300k 100% Funded

- HICOLA 2013-2015 ‘Euro-Stars’ €300k 50% Funded

- ALOHA 2010-2012 ‘PIANO’ €300k Self – Funded partner

€ 2.8M FP7 R&D funding to date

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FP7 Experiences

Engineering / Development

Accounting

Management

from 3 broad perspectives

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FP7 Experiences

Low cost research (basic/applied)

New materials, products, markets

Partnering with top tier commercial and academic

research and customers

Exposure

Publications, new insights

Engineering / Development, R&D Team

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FP7 Experiences

Prepayments

Payments, payment delays ( partners )

Overheads

Reporting ( dedicated )

R&D Tax credit

Financial

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FP7 Experiences

Proposal resources

Timesheets

Relevance to company direction / roadmap

Product portfolio

Recruitment

Management

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H2020

Funding to build a proposal

Funding and resources to develop a new product

Advice to build the business

Evolution from FP7

Enterprise Ireland support structure

‘SME Instrument’ call

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