Fujitsu Limited and Mitsui & Co. Limited announced have established a new optical device venture, QD Laser Inc. (QDL), leveraging venture capital funding from both companies and Fujitsu's quantum dot laser technology.
Quantum dots are semiconductor particles that are a single nanometer (one billionth of a meter) in size. Quantum dots and technology utilizing quantum dots were developed through academic-industrial research collaboration by Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Laboratories, and Professor Yasuhiko Arakawa's laboratory at the University of Tokyo.
Utilizing quantum dot semiconductor crystallization leading-edge technology developed thus far by Fujitsu, and laser design and process technologies, QDL will offer quantum dot lasers to the optical telecommunication light source market for use in opticalaccess and optical LAN within buildings. The new company aims to leverage the performance of its technologies to expand its share in the market.
Mitsui's equity investment in QDL will be made from Mitsui's principal funds that are managed by Mitsui Ventures. In addition to supporting QDL through strategy planning, operational management, capitalization and fund-raising strategy, Mitsui Ventures will also support global marketing of QDL's technologies, enhancing growth and expansion of the new venture.
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