EE Distinguished Speakers Seminar: Recent trends in silicon photonics
Event details
| Date | 11.10.2019 |
| Hour | 13:15 › 14:15 |
| Speaker |
Roel Baets is full professor at Ghent University (UGent) and is associated with IMEC. He received an MSc degree in Electrical Engineering from UGent in 1980 and a second MSc degree from Stanford in 1981. He received a PhD degree from UGent in 1984. From 1984 till 1989 he held a postdoctoral position at IMEC. Since 1989 he has been a professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of UGent where he founded the Photonics Research Group. From 1990 till 1994 he has also been a part-time professor at Delft University of Technology and from 2004 till 2008 at Eindhoven University of Technology. Roel Baets has mainly worked in the field of integrated photonics. He has made contributions to research on photonic integrated circuits, both in III-V semiconductors and in silicon, as well as their applications in telecom, datacom, sensing and medicine. As part of a team of 9 professors Roel Baets leads the Photonics Research Group. With about 90 researchers this group is involved in numerous (inter)national research programs and has created six spin-off companies. The silicon photonics activities of the group are part of a joint research initiative with IMEC. Roel Baets has led major research projects in silicon photonics in Europe. In 2006 he founded ePIXfab, the globally first Multi-Project-Wafer service for silicon photonics. Since then ePIXfab has evolved to become the European Silicon Photonics Alliance. Roel Baets is also director of the multidisciplinary Center for Nano- and Biophotonics (NB Photonics) at UGent, founded in 2010. He was co-founder of the European MSc programme in Photonics. Roel Baets is an ERC grantee of the European Research Council and a Methusalem grantee of the Flemish government. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, of the European Optical Society (EOS) and of the Optical Society (OSA). He is also a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts. |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract: In the past 20 years silicon photonics has evolved from a purely academic field to an industry-relevant field with millions of devices deployed in the market. Silicon photonics uses the technology base of CMOS fabs to implement advanced photonic functions on a compact chip. Today the industrial interest is mostly focused on high speed transceivers (100Gb/s and more) for datacenters and communication links, but the future potential goes far beyond datacom and telecom and encompasses as diverse areas as LIDAR, sensing devices for environmental and medical applications, quantum applications, machine learning and AI, and much more.
In this lecture I will start with a brief tutorial of the field as a whole. Then I will move on to a number of exciting developments that will enable novel functionalities for future applications. This will include light source integration, nonlinear functions, sensing functions and programmable functions.
In this lecture I will start with a brief tutorial of the field as a whole. Then I will move on to a number of exciting developments that will enable novel functionalities for future applications. This will include light source integration, nonlinear functions, sensing functions and programmable functions.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Prof. Elison Matioli
Contact
- [email protected] / +4121 69 33721