Introduction
Kaleido Technology
is a manufacturer of OEM discrete and
integrated micro-optical components and sub-systems for applications
in telecom, sensor and material processing.
Two major problems have persistently haunted optical manufacturing
over the last decade or so. The first problem is the lack of
automation that characterizes manufacturing of optical components.
The second problem is to realize components that will meet the often
very strict requirements in terms of stability towards temperature,
humidity and chemical conditions. Kaleido’s approach is a technology
that will solve both of these problems leading to cost-effective
manufacturing of rugged and stable components and sub-modules.
Kaleido’s technology is build from three key ingredients:
· manufacturing of complex-shaped optics and replications masters by diamond-machining and
precision grinding
· wafer-based precision molding of optical glasses,
· wafer-scale integration for production automation.
History
Kaleido Technology ApS was established in 2001 as a spin-off of
the activities in the company PI Consult & Invest ApS. A group of
research scientists and engineers from the former IBSEN Micro Structures/ADC
Denmark co-founded Kaleido Technology as
entrepreneurs at the time of establishment.
Kaleido Technology together with other companies in the PI Consult &
Invest ApS portfolio,
Ibsen Photonics A/S, and
Stensborg
A/S, forms a strong
optical cluster. Please visit the respective Web Sites for more
information.
In 2003 Kaleido Technology received further financing from three
venture companies:
Symbion Capital,
Danish Venture Fund and
V-invest.
Management team
Mr. Per Eld Ibsen, Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Palle Geltzer Dinesen, VP, Chief Sales Officer
Dr. Christian Holme, Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Henrik Madsen, product manager
Vision
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It is the vision of Kaleido Technology to copy the
industrial success of integration in the semiconductor
industry, and bring the optical industry
from its existing manual assembly of discrete bulky
optical components to Kaleido Technology’s wafer-based
production technology. Armed with the exact same
competitive advantages as the Texas Instruments of the
sixties and the Intel of the seventies, we will be able
to offer much cheaper, much more rugged and much more
complex products. |