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Silicon photonics chipsets
Revolutionizing optical sensors and computing
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Photonics Excellence Day 2019
Who we are:
Ciaran Rooney, Director of Corporate Development
Armand Sibony, Strategic Advisor
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MISSION
Deliver the leading cutting-edge photonics platform with large-scale, integrated,
economical solutions to transform connectivity and sensing applications
VISION
Photonics as pervasive as micro-electronics
BUSINESS MODEL
Silicon photonic chipsets and interface and control ASIC IP/chips;
Partnering with module producers to enable broad market coverage and
volume scale for the platform
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Our StoryFormed in 2013 - $170m equity financing, founded by pioneers in commercial silicon photonics - two previously successful companies
150 people worldwide – engineering & operations in California, CHQ in UK, embedded process teams in Europe
Business model – Provider of silicon photonic chipsets and interface and control ASIC IP/chips
Fabless – Own the process IP (key differentiator) and design IP, well established qualified manufacturing ecosystem.
Significant Customer Traction – Tier 1 customer traction across all verticals. Shipping Chips.
Exceptional IP Portfolio – over 40 granted patents and 190 pending applications across key jurisdictions
Platform Play Across Multiple Growth Markets – core disruptive and enabling IP across consumer devices, healthcare, machine vision and optical compute connectivity
$20billion SAM in current focused verticals - market leading customers in hyper scale growth sectors
Provides the hardware to enable Tech 2.0
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Silicon Photonics - The Concept
• Silicon Photonics: Wafer-Scale Manufacturing of Optical Devices
– Single-chip silicon integration of optical components
– Considerably fewer components, much smaller size, lower power
– Reduced manufacturing complexity and cost
– Applying Moore’s Law to Optics
https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-21-22-26962
Silicon PhotonicsConventional Optics
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design and manufactures completely integrated silicon photonics and IC chipsets that allow our customers to make game changing market defining products in: Consumer Health Monitoring Devices Machine Vision Compute Connectivity
What we do:
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Markets and Products: The customer verticals we address
Rockley’s unified photonic platform for multiple applications
ONN, Quantum
Computing, …
Consumer Health Sensor
Machine Vision
Compute Connectivity
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Organisation: Where we are
PASADENA, USA
OPERATIONS AND ENGINEERING HQ - SiPh/III-V design and process, IC design, packaging, reference systems and operations
SAN JOSE, USA
Commercial
Product engineering
FINLAND
Silicon photonics
Process technology
UK
CORPORATE HQ
III-V and SiPh
process engineering
IRELAND
III-V photonics
process technology
VARIOUS
Volume foundry
partners and
development partners
Efficiently leveraging development and manufacturing partners in:
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Supported by an industry leading and multi-disciplinary team in:
Silicon Photonics/III-V Process
Photonics design
Analog, mixed and digital design
Packaging
Reference designs and software
Mahesh Karanth
Chief Financial Officer
Amit Nagra
Chief Operating Officer
Aaron Zilkie
VP R&D - Si Photonics
Ara Nazarian
Executive VP Engineering
Responsible for leading the finance, legal and IT
teams
Previously CFO of Enlightened Inc. and
Invensense. Also held several senior roles
including M&A, treasury and corporate
development as well as working as a Partner in
Audit at Ernst & Young
Responsible for leading core IP, device and chip
design, process development and operations in
the areas of silicon photonics
Ex Executive VP Operations, Source Photonics
Ex Director Operations, LuminentOIC
Ex Program Manager & Senior Engineer, Kotura
Inc.
Ex Senior Optical Engineer, Oclaro
MSc and PhD in Electrical Engineering from
University of Toronto
Ex VP Engineering, Marvell Semiconductor
Ex Senior VP Engineering, WiTricity
Ex Senior Director of IC Design Engineering in
Mobile Platforms Group at Broadcom
Ex Vice President of Engineering at Versifi and
Western Digital Corporation
Dr Andrew Rickman OBE
Founder, CEO and Chairman, Rockley Photonics Ltd.
• Previously founder, chief executive and chairman of Bookham Technology (renamed Oclaro) and grew the company to become a FTSE100 business. In 1988, Bookham, renamed Oclaro, became one
of the world’s largest fiber optics telecom component producers. Oclaro is now part of Lumentum.
• Chairman of Kotura Inc., and was instrumental in its development and ultimately successful sale in 2013 to Mellanox® Technologies.
• Andrew has a mechanical engineering degree from Imperial College, London; a PhD in silicon photonics from Surrey University; and an MBA from Cranfield University. He was awarded an OBE in the
Queen’s Millennium Honors list for services to the telecommunications industry
Organisation: Who we are
Our team of 150+ based in California and Europe is recognized for World leading expertise in silicon photonics design and pro cess, associated
microelectronics, packaging and applications in connectivity and sensing systems
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Supported by an industry leading multidisciplinary team across:Silicon Photonics/III-V Process
Photonics design Analog, mixed and digital design
PackagingReference designs and software
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We are at an inflexion point in sensing
“Advancement in sensor technologies has
created a potential for a $30bn industry”
Goldman Sachs, The Long and Short of it (2019)
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$4,000 – $75,000$100sLiDAR should NOT cost more
than the car it is mounted on
4-Channel TRX LiDAR engine module example
LiDAR an Example:
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Unique Highly Differentiated Optimized Silicon Photonics Platform. Toolbox Elements:
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$4,000 – $75,000$100sLiDAR should NOT cost more
than the car it is mounted on
Lower cost
Compact
No Moving Parts
Eye Safe
Range
Performance
100 - 1,000x
More highly integrated than alternatives (1000x)
More robust
Longer wavelengths do not reach the retina important for general safety and liability
issues
200m+ forward, ~30m around the vehicle
Wider range of high-performance
4-Channel TRX LiDAR engine module example
Rockley’s integrated LiDAR solution
highly integrated Tx & RX LiDAR engine and OPA beam steering/scanning solutions enable:
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Lower cost
Compact
No Moving Parts
Eye Safe
Range
Performance
100 - 1,000x
More highly integrated than alternatives (1000x)
More robust
Longer wavelengths do not reach the retina important for general safety and liability
issues
200m+ forward, ~30m around the vehicle
Wider range of high-performance
Beam 1
Beam N
Beam Steering & Receiving
•Solid State oSiPh OPAoLCoS OPA
•MechanicaloMEMSoGalvooPiezo
•Rotational
Multi-Beam RX LO
Beam 1
Beam M
High Speed Electronics
DSP(Point Cloud Generation)
TIA Bank
DetectorBank
Combiner Network
TRX Engine
Light Generation
DBR/DFBMultiple λ
Modulation
CW
Splitter Network
+Amplification
AFE MCU (Control + Readout)
Multi-Beam TX
AFE IC Drivers
highly integrated Tx & RX LiDAR engine and OPA beam steering/scanning solutions enable:
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1x8 SMF ribbon
Thermistor
AlN Substrate
PIC
Strain relief
InP Laser
EIC
EIC
Passively aligned fiber
LCP Package
Rockley 8 DBR Laser module for LiDAR/3D imaging and sensing
• 8-channel InP DBR laser array with channel spacing (3nm)
• Simulation showing potential capability of 1000m
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Rockley in France
• Excellent R&D ecosystem – Successful previous collaboration with University of Paris Sud and now looking for partners in the region
• Excellent Photonics ecosystem • Excellent Commercial and Industrial Partner ecosystem – In discussions with
potential commercial and industrial partners in the ecosystem• Excellent manufacturing and materials ecosystem – Successful collaboration with
Soitec.
R&D Partner Commercial Partner
Bring an application to market in:- LiDAR / Machine Vision- Healthcare Sensing- IoT
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