SEMICON Europa 2016

Torsten Vahrenkamp
CEO
ficonTEC Service GmbH


Torsten Vahrenkamp is CEO and one of the founders of the company ficonTEC which is located in Germany, close to Bremen. When founding the company in 2001, the goal was to provide automatic and semi-automatic assembly and test solutions for the photonics industry. Torsten holds a diploma for Applied Laser Technologies which he got in 1998 at the University of Applied Sciences in Emden, Germany. During his further work at the Institute of Laser Technology in Emden and University of Loughborough he built a fully automatic laser lithography system for rapid generation of micro structures in submicron dimensions and developed a process to generate the world’s first in-glass diffractive optics using ion exchange processes in gradient refractive index glass which is used today for generation of waveguides in glass.

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