【In-depth study and implementation of the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Party·Chinese-style modernization】
Guangming Daily reporter Li Jie and Zhang Zhehao
“Hello 2024”, while the green light flashed, the femtosecond laser with extremely narrow pulse width engraved these words on the match head.
This breathtaking scene is very common in Xi’an Zhongke Micro-Jing Photonics Technology Co., Ltd. Walking into the laser processing workshop, one after another high-speed equipment is using femtosecond laser to perform various precise processing, “carving” a vivid curve of innovative development.
The photonics industry is one of the most revolutionary, basic and leading strategic high-tech industries in the 21st century. As the first province in China to lay out the photonics industry, Shaanxi’s forward-looking layout can be traced back to 2021. The “Light Chasing Plan” proposed that year was upgraded to the “Leap Action” just two years later, with Zhao Yide, Secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, taking charge of the photonics industry. The industrial chain is long and we have entered the photon “2.0” era. At present, Shaanxi is accelerating towards the strategic goal of becoming an ecological highland for the photonics industry with global influence and building a photonics industry cluster worth hundreds of billions.
On March 4, technicians tested wafers at an optoelectronics platform in Shaanxi.Xinhua News Agency
1. Innovation, giving birth to many new fields
In the 1960s, after the emergence of lasers, a Nobel Prize was awarded to photonics achievements on average every three years. In 1978, Academician Gong Zutong, the first director of the Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, proposed the concept of photonics for the first time in China, which opened the prelude to the development of photonics in my country. Nowadays, it has become a trend for photons to replace electrons, and photonic technology will also become one of the core technologies to promote economic development in the 21st century.
So, what exactly is photonic technology?
Photonic technology is a technology that converts light energy into electrical energy by using photons to excite electrons or electronic transitions to generate photons. Compared with electrons, photons have innate advantages as information carriers, such as ultra-high speed, ultra-strong parallelism, ultra-high bandwidth, ultra-low loss, etc. Photonic chips that use optical signals for data acquisition, transmission, calculation, storage and display will become key infrastructure in the era of 5G and artificial intelligence in the future.
As a basic and leading technology, photonic technology is the “critical minority” of the modern industrial system and the “root technology” of future industries. It can support and drive the upgrading and development of many industries and spawn many new fields and new tracks. It has become a global innovation A battleground in the Highlands.
Clean room view of the advanced photonic device engineering innovation platform of Shaanxi Optoelectronics Pilot Institute.Data pictures
Photon technology is behind the domestically produced large aircraft, my country’s first advanced space-based solar observatory “Kuafu-1” satellite and other “important weapons of great powers”, as well as civilian technologies such as portable 3D scanners and AR glasses.
Today, photonic technology has penetrated into all walks of life and is used in all aspects of daily life. According to the subject classification of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, optics and optoelectronics are divided into 16 subdivisions and 142 research sub-directions. For example, in terms of optical communications, fiber optic networks have become very common in homes; in terms of optical sensing, lidar has become an underlying technology widely installed in vehicles; in terms of optical medicine, laser surgery to treat myopia is also a daily application of photon technology .
Currently, the global photonics industry is in a “window period” of development and a “critical stage” of competition. In order to seize the commanding heights of the photonics industry, various countries are vigorously researching key photonics core technologies. The industry is actively participating. The competition in the global photonics industry is becoming increasingly fierce. The photonics industry Rapid development.
In 2021, the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government implemented the “Light Chasing Plan”. Through a full-chain layout, the number of photonic technology companies in Shaanxi has increased to more than 300 in recent years, and a photonic industry ecosystem has initially been formed. In 2023, the output value of the photonics industry chain in Shaanxi Province will exceed 30 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of more than 50%.
Staff members of Xi’an Zhongke Micro-Jing Photonics Technology Co., Ltd. operate ultra-fast precision laser processing equipment.Data pictures
2. Sharing to improve the competitiveness of the industrial chain
During the Grain Rain season, I walked into the Shaanxi Optoelectronics Pilot Institute located at the foot of the Qinling Mountains. In the spacious and clean factory building, a new platform supporting production line was ready.
For start-up technology companies, scientific research supporting facilities such as pilot testing, testing, and engineering often become “stumbling blocks” to the transformation of scientific and technological achievements.
In this regard, in 2015, the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Xi’an High-tech Zone, and the Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences jointly initiated the establishment of the Shaanxi Optoelectronics Leading Institute, aiming to build an achievement transformation through “scarce platform resources + professional technical services” “Bridge” solves the problem that laboratories are difficult to transform innovative results and mature foundries are unwilling to undertake the output of small quantities of innovative products.
A complete process technology team of more than 100 people, more than 100 sets (sets) of key equipment for advanced compound chips, and 8,000 square meters of clean workshops of class 1,000, class 10,000, and class 100,000… This is an optoelectronic chip integrating R&D and pilot services. Professional service platform in the field. “With such a platform, the starting cost of start-up technology companies can be reduced to at least one-tenth of the original cost.” Yang Junhong, general manager of Shaanxi Optoelectronics Pilot Institute, said that this will allow new technologies to iterate quickly and realize multiple rounds of technology in various subdivisions. Innovative breakthroughs.
“Shaanxi Optoelectronics Leading Institute has always regarded providing photonics companies with R&D, pilot testing, testing, and engineering services as its core value. On March 30, 2023, it upgraded and launched an advanced photonic device engineering innovation platform. This platform will use ‘technical services + The “engineering OEM” model provides a complete chain from product development to market-based mass supply for various innovative entities in the photonics industry,” said Yang Junhong.
As the “chain master” enterprise of the photonics industry chain in Shaanxi Province, Shaanxi Optoelectronics Leading Institute promotes “smooth chain” and “extended chain” and has cultivated and gathered nearly a hundred photonics industry enterprises.
Panoramic view of Xi’an’s curvature engine photon manufacturing hardware technology enterprise community.Data pictures
In addition to a professional technical service platform, sufficient and stable financial support is also a key element for the operation and development of enterprises. In 2016, Zhongke Chuangxing Technology Investment Co., Ltd. established the “Shaanxi Pioneer Optoelectronics Integrated Venture Capital Fund” with a total scale of 1 billion yuan. It mainly focuses on layout and investment in consumer photonics, photonic integrated chips and optoelectronic application industries.
In May 2017, Safulus Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd. officially settled in Xi’an. At present, the company has applied for 98 core patents and has been rated as a specialized and special new enterprise in Shaanxi Province. It has successfully achieved mass production. Talking about the company’s original location selection, the company’s founder Chen Chen said frankly: “At that time, we visited many places at home and abroad, and the hardware support and policy service facilities provided by Xi’an were not available in many places.”
Technical service platform, investment incubation platform, scientific and educational talent resources… In recent years, Shaanxi has “grafted” all these advantages to the photonics industry.
“The implementation of the ‘Light Chasing Plan’ has accelerated the effective gathering of photonics companies, promoted the interlocking of the industrial chain, promoted the coordinated development of upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain, formed an integrated development pattern of innovation chain sharing and industrial chain collaboration, and improved the photonics industry in Shaanxi The stability and competitiveness of the chain,” said Huang Xinbo, deputy director of the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology.
3. Gather together to create an industrial ecological highland
“The most significant change brought about by the ‘Light Chasing Plan’ should be the rapid growth in the number of photonic technology enterprises in Shaanxi and the continuous expansion in scale.” Zhang Wensong, chairman of Xi’an Heqi Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., said that in the past, the annual output value of enterprises in the photonic field exceeded There are not many companies worth 100 million yuan, but in the past two years, there have been companies with an output value of more than 1 billion yuan. These are all inseparable from the government’s policy support.
Heqi Optoelectronics is a national-level specialized and new “little giant” enterprise incubated by China Science and Technology Star Investment. Heqi Optoelectronics’ “ten years of hard work” independently innovated, developed and mass-produced a series of infrared temperature measurement products for power equipment transformer winding temperature controllers and key components of semiconductor equipment, which have been exported to many countries.
On March 24, the Shaanxi Provincial Development and Reform Commission formulated the “Shaanxi Province Action Plan to Cultivate a Hundred-Billion-Level Photonics Industry Innovation Cluster” to build a “one core and two wings” around the advantages of photonics technology and the foundation of industrial development, with Xi’an as the center and radiating throughout the province. The cross-regional spatial layout of the photonics industry innovation cluster.
Among them, “One Core” refers to the core area for photonics industry innovation and development in Xi’an High-tech Zone. The Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has joined forces with Shaanxi photonics research institutions, major innovation platforms, and key scientific and technological innovation enterprises to focus on photon basic research, applied research, experimental development, and key core technology research, and build a “photon frontier technology innovation-photon application” Technology development – transformation of scientific and technological achievements – industrial development” innovation chain.
The “two wings” are Xixian New Area and Tongchuan Photonics Industry Innovation and Development Cluster. Focusing on the three key areas of advanced laser and photonic manufacturing, photonic materials and chips, and photonic sensing, we will transform and incubate a number of high-quality photonics enterprises, build specialized industrial parks, and promote the clustered development of the entire photonics industry chain.
Xi’an High-tech Zone, as the spatial carrier of the national layout of “dual centers”, has currently brought together 168 photonics companies, including 2 listed companies and 6 “chain master” units, forming industrial clusters such as photonic manufacturing, photonic information, and photon sensing. . Tongchuan also has optoelectronics-related companies settled in Tongchuan, with a number of optoelectronic chip projects such as Aowei Laser and Sun Moon Chip packaging and testing.
On April 15, 9 Shaanxi provincial companies and 8 photonics industry chain companies from across the country conducted photonics industry chain cooperation and docking in Xi’an.
“Strengthen the connection between technological innovation and industrial innovation in the photonics industry chain, seize the middle and high end of the value chain of the photonics industry chain, target the areas with the most obvious advantages to expand the industrial chain, promote collaborative innovation of the industrial chain group, and work with key enterprises in the photonics industry chain in open application scenarios, Strengthen cooperation in building industrial alliances and jointly create a good development ecosystem for the industry,” said Ren Guo, Secretary of the Party Committee of Shaanxi Provincial State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission.
Shaanxi’s photonics industry has a solid foundation and obvious first-mover advantages. It is the region with the best conditions and potential to achieve breakthroughs first in China. From the “Light Chasing Plan” to the “Leap Action”, Shaanxi planned the layout in advance, prepared to build the Shaanxi Photon Technology Laboratory, and actively explored the photonics industry in Shaanxi Province integrating “big scientific equipment + common technology platform + science and technology finance + innovation consortium”. laboratory; with the Curvature Engine Photonics Industry Cluster as the core, we plan to build the Qinchuangyuan Photonics Industry Innovation Cluster in Shaanxi Province; with finance as the starting point, we work with the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Science and Technology to plan the policies and policies of the “Major Central-Government Linkage Project” Guide funds to support the development of the photonics industry in Shaanxi Province.
“Shaanxi is actively leveraging its advantages in photonics industry talents, rich scientific and educational resources, and relatively mature industrial chains to allow more factors to flow in the direction of cultivating new productive forces.” Wang Jun, deputy director of the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Science and Technology, said that the plan is to reach 2026 by 2026. , to build Shaanxi into an original innovation highland leading the world’s photonics technology, the main frontier for the development of the national photonics industry, and a photonics industry ecological highland with global influence, with the scale of the core industry exceeding 100 billion yuan.
“Guangming Daily” (Page 05, April 23, 2024)
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