Boeing: Spectrolab Announces State-of-the-Art Facility For Optoelectronic Products, Assembly and Packaging

Spectrolab Announces State-of-the-Art Facility For Optoelectronic Products, Assembly and Packaging

LOS ANGELES, March 19, 2002 -- Spectrolab, Inc., a subsidiary of The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA], has installed a state-of-the-art packaging and assembly facility that makes the company a one-stop shop for optoelectronic components designed for fiber-optics-based telecommunications and data communications.

The facility gives Spectrolab a high-volume production capability for various types of packaged optical components and chip assemblies for use in fiber-optic systems. This builds on Spectrolab's core competency as a high-volume foundry service for products that are "grown" in a Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy (MOVPE) reactor. These include heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) wafers, waveguide modulators, laser diode wafers and multijunction solar cell wafers, all of which Spectrolab can manufacture to each customer's specific designs.

"We have become a one-stop shop supplier of epitaxially grown wafers, dies and packaged assemblies, and we can save customers time and money from product development to manufacturing," explained Dr. Nasser Karam, Spectrolab vice president, Optoelectronic Products. "We are currently seeing more interest from customers in packaged optoelectronic products. We are especially excited about this packaging facility because it will enable us to manufacture our newly developed 10G pin dies in high volumes and at low costs."

A world-leading supplier of space and terrestrial solar cells, Spectrolab possesses one of the largest MOVPE facilities in North America with state-of-the-art production reactors. Spectrolab's manufacturing facility is used for the growth and fabrication of solar cells as well as optoelectronic devices. Spectrolab's goal is to become a leading MOVPE wafer and device fabrication foundry service provider for optoelectronic products. With the addition of the packaging facility, Spectrolab is also now capable providing optoelectronic packaging foundry service at a full range of production volumes.

Spectrolab offers optoelectronic products packaged to customer specifications. Packages include dies mounted on ceramic submounts, transistor outline (TO) cans, fiber pigtail packages, butterfly packages and other designs. Spectrolab also tests the packages and qualifies them to the fiber-optics industry's Telcordia standards.

Spectrolab, an ISO 9001-2000 certified company, was founded in 1958 and has been supplying solar cells and panels to the space industry for more than 40 years. Spectrolab is headquartered in Sylmar, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles. It also is a leading supplier of searchlights and solar simulators. Visit Spectrolab's web site at www.spectrolab.com.

Boeing Space and Communications (S&C), headquartered in Seal Beach, Calif., is the world's largest space and communications company. A unit of The Boeing Company, S&C provides integrated solutions in launch services, human space flight and exploration, missile defense, and information and communications. It is NASA's largest contractor; a leading provider of space-based communications; the primary systems integrator for U.S. missile defense; and a leading provider of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. The global enterprise has customers worldwide and manufacturing operations throughout the United States and Australia.

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