Philippe Brégi

Optics Valley AD operates as an association with interests in the optics, electronics, and software sectors. Its service categories include business, partnership, accompaniment, visibility, training, and housing. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Palaiseau, France.

Part of Egide SA, Egide (UK) Ltd. is a British company that manufactures ceramic, metal and plastic injection molded components. The company is based in Woodbridge, UK. Egide (UK was acquired by Egide (UK /Management/ from Egide SA on November 05, 2013 for $0.40 million.

Part of Egide SA, Egide USA, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells hermetic packages for the protection and interconnection of electronic or photonic chips. These packages ensure the invulnerability of integrated electronic systems or sophisticated chips, which are fragile and sensitive to thermal, atmospheric, or magnetic conditions. Egide operates in cutting-edge markets with strong technology barriers to entry in all critical industry segments, including space, defense, security, aeronautics, telecommunications, and energy. The American company has extended the scope of its activities to civil aeronautics, security, and industrial applications of infrared technology. Egide is one of the few companies that master all the technologies used to date in the world for these packages, including glass, metal, and ceramics.

Avanex Corporation is a leading global provider of Intelligent Photonic Solutions(TM) to meet the needs of fiber optic communications networks for greater capacity, longer distance transmissions, improved connectivity, higher speeds and lower costs. These solutions enable or enhance optical wavelength multiplexing, dispersion compensation, switching and routing, transmission, amplification, and include network-managed subsystems. Avanex was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in Fremont, California. Avanex also maintains facilities in Erwin Park, N.Y.; Nozay, France; and San Donato, Italy. The facilities also are home to Avanex's Centers of Excellence for specialized research and manufacturing.