The Centre for Integrated Photonics (CIP) was a research and development centre for
photonic
Photonics is a branch of optics that involves the application of generation, detection, and manipulation of light in the form of photons through emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, and sensing. Eve ...
devices. It was based in Phoenix House at
Adastral Park
Adastral Park is a science campus based on part of the old Royal Air Force Station at Martlesham Heath, near Ipswich in the English county of Suffolk.
When the site opened it was known as the Post Office Research Station, but it was subsequen ...
in
Martlesham
Martlesham is a village in Suffolk, England about two miles (3 km) south-west of Woodbridge, Suffolk, Woodbridge and east of Ipswich. It is often referred to as "old Martlesham" by locals in order to distinguish this old village from the ...
,
UK. It was bought by
Huawei
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ("Huawei" sometimes stylized as "HUAWEI"; ; zh, c=华为, p= ) is a Chinese multinational corporationtechnology company in Longgang, Shenzhen, Longgang, Shenzhen, Guangdong. Its main product lines include teleco ...
in 2012, between 2003 and 2012 it was owned by
EEDA, prior to that it was owned by
Corning Incorporated
Corning Incorporated is an American multinational technology company specializing in glass, ceramics, and related materials and technologies including advanced optics, primarily for industrial and scientific applications. The company was name ...
.
References
About CIP https://web.archive.org/web/20120128074058/http://www.ciphotonics.com/about
Huawei purchase CIP, retrieved from EADT 27/1/12 http://www.eadt.co.uk/business/chinese_ict_group_huawei_buys_centre_for_integrated_photonics_at_bt_s_adastral_park_1_1187669
Photonics
Research institutes in the United Kingdom
History of Huawei
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