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14 January 2000
Telstra Appoints QED to License VCSEL Patents
Versatile lasers to power the next generation of high-speed
local area networks.
Telstra, the leading full-service telecommunications and information services
company in Australia, has appointed QED Intellectual Property Ltd, a Scipher company,
to license its patents for Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSEL)
"We are particularly pleased to be working with Telstra as they have an impressive
patent portfolio", said Peter Ross, associate licensing director at QED. ''The
VCSEL patents are very important for the future of local area networks (LAN)".
QED offers a service that generates appropriate rewards for innovative companies
by licensing patents and other intellectual property, and then sharing in the
revenue generated.
About VCSEL's
Vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) represents a family of semiconductor
devices that, according to Opto & Laser Europe, have generated a multimillion
dollar a year business in a little more than two years.
Most semiconductor lasers emit light from the side of the chip, but VCSEL structures
are designed to emit light from the top surface. They can therefore be made as
arrays on a wafer and, in principle, are much easier to mass-produce than edge-emitting
semiconductor lasers. They are also highly efficient, and provide an ideal light
source for fibre-optic local area networks. They are candidates for future high
capacity interconnects, for writing high-density data storage such as DVD and
may also be used in printers.
About Telstra
Telstra Corporation is Australia's largest telecommunications company and
leading corporation, employing 50,000 people and have global revenues of in excess
of £6 billion.
Telstra Research Laboratories is the research and development arm of Telstra.
The Laboratories' history of achievement spans 76 years, and includes key contributions
to the development of the national telephone network, radio communications and
television broadcasting in Australia. Telstra Research Laboratories is one of
Australia's largest industrial R&D organisations, and the patents date from their
pioneering work in the early days of the technology in the late 1980s.
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