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SUMMARY:IMT Talk : Micro- and Nanoscale Photonic Integrated Transducers
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Niels Quack\nAbstract:  \n\nThe field of integrated tra
 nsducers has experienced tremendous progress over the past decades\, with 
 micromachined sensors and actuators having seamlessly integrated into our 
 daily lives\, among others reshaping the way we interact with our personal
  digital devices\, providing a reliable and secure backbone of our fiber-o
 ptical telecommunication network\, or enabling devices for the continuous 
 monitoring of our personal health. In particular\, the combination of phot
 onics with micro- and nanofabrication engineering has been widely recogniz
 ed to provide unique opportunities for miniaturized high performance syste
 ms and to allow exploring novel concepts in photonic integrated transducer
 s. In this talk\, we will :\n\n(1) introduce the exceptional performance o
 f photonic integrated transducers\, which benefit from the precision achie
 ved by exploring fabrication methods and physics at the micro- and nanosca
 le\, at the example of a smart slit demonstrator for advanced spectroscopy
  in space-borne spectrometers. Taking advantage of the recent progress in 
 further miniaturization in photonic integrated circuits\, we will then\n\n
 (2) discuss the expectation on photonic integrated transducers to play a p
 ivotal role in matching the increased need for bandwidth in fiber-optic te
 lecommunication and datacenter infrastructure. Indeed\, modern fiber-optic
 al communication systems rely on photonic integrated transducers\, to atte
 nuate\, shape\, filter or redirect optical signals\, and we will demonstra
 te\, how we can exploit surface micromachined electro-mechano-photonic tra
 nsducers for next generation fully integrated optical circuit switching so
 lutions. Advances in integration allow at the same time to envision entire
 ly novel concepts. Consequently\, we will\n\n(3) motivate scaling and syst
 em level integration approaches towards large circuits\, and introduce the
  concept of the photonic equivalent to electronic field-programmable gate 
 arrays. While current photonic integrated circuit technology platforms typ
 ically rely on electro-thermal\, plasma-dispersion\, or electro-optical tr
 ansduction\, we follow in the collaborative H2020 project Morphic our uniq
 ue route to introduce Nano-Opto-Electromechanical Systems into standard si
 licon photonics to leverage the potential for large-scale\, low-power reco
 nfigurable photonic integrated circuits e.g. for the use in physical imple
 mentations of photonic tensor core units. Finally\, we will\n\n(4) summari
 ze highlights of our recent experimental progress and outline the roadmap 
 for establishing future photonic integrated transducers in diamond\, as an
  illustration how we can leverage novel material integration and nanofabri
 cation approaches to engineer solutions for emerging applications includin
 g photonic integrated transducers for quantum sensing or quantum informati
 on processing in diamond integrated photonics.\n\nBiography:\n\nNiels Quac
 k received the M. Sc. degree from EPFL in 2005\, and the Dr. Sc. degree fr
 om ETH Zürich in 2010.  From 2011 to 2015 he was postdoctoral researcher
  and visiting scholar at University of California\, Berkeley\, within the 
 Integrated Photonics Laboratory at the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center
 . From 2014 to 2015 he was Senior MEMS Engineer with Sercalo Microtechnolo
 gy\, leading manufacturer of MEMS based components for fiber-optical telec
 ommunications. Since 2015 he is SNSF Assistant Professor at EPFL\, leading
  the research group on Photonic Micro- and Nanosystems. His research focus
  aligns micro- and nanofabrication engineering with the physics at the mic
 ro- and nanoscale and system level integration for integrated transducer s
 ystems\, addressing emerging and future applications in telecommunications
 \, quantum information processing and sensing\, imaging and artificial int
 elligence. He is senior member of IEEE\, member of OSA and SPIE\, and hold
 s associate editor appointments for the IEEE Journal of Microelectromechan
 ical Systems (JMEMS)  and the SPIE Journal of Optical Microsystems (JOM).
  He serves on the Steering Committee for the IEEE International Conference
  on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN)\, and has served as General Chair
  for IEEE OMN 2018 and the 2019 Symposium Latsis on Diamond Photonics.\n\n
  
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