March 22-24, 2010, Messe Berlin

For the fifth time running Fraunhofer IZM will be exhibiting at the Laser Optics Berlin. Under the heading of Photonic Packaging optical and optoelectrical packaging and interconnection technologies will be presented.

LOB is both a fair and a congress for optical technologies and their numerous applications. It offers experts from research, development and production a communication platform and a market place for innovative products. The LOB enables presentation of future-oriented ideas, technological trends and world premieres.

The focus of this year’s Fraunhofer IZM presentation will be on photonic packaging for:

• Cost-effective optical interconnection technology

• laser modules (telecommunication, projection, high power) and receivers

• electro-optical circuit boards and optical backplanes (integration of thin glass based waveguides, substrate integrated micro-optics)

• special technologies for fiber optics (fiber lenses, laser fusion)

• power light sources (ultra-high-brightness LED)

The proverbial “highlight” at the booth will be a historical gas lantern in which the gas mantle has been replaced by a HiTec-LED-mantle. The lantern is presented by courtesy of BRAUN Düsseldorf GmbH (www.braunduesseldorf.de) and it impressively demonstrates how the use of efficient LEDs not only significantly reduces the cost for operation and maintenance, but also reproduces the color rendering of the original gas lantern.

Fraunhofer IZM will also be presenting an autarkic portable measuring device for practical tests to quantitatively determine the microbacterial contamination of meat and other foodstuffs. The portable device uses a fiber-optic optode for the fluorescence spectroscopy measurements. It can read and re-write conventional RFID labels to, for example, record the detected measurements on the labels. The device can be connected to laptops, PCs and thus the Internet via integrated Bluetooth. An intuitive touchscreen-based GUI is used to operate the scanner.

You’ll find us at booth #302, we look forward to seeing you in Berlin!