How will Photonic Integrated Circuit Technology Develop?
Event details
| Date | 28.03.2012 |
| Hour | 11:00 |
| Speaker | Prof. Michael Haney, University of Delaware |
| Location |
ME B1 B10
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
This talk explores the issues associated with Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) R&D – with an overall goal of initiating a discussion of how PIC technology should continue to develop and eventually be deployed with high impact. Significant research programs have focused on PICs for routing and switching, analog signal processing, and computer interconnects. Most recently, the application domain of PICs has diversified into such areas as remote sensing, biological and chemical sensing, neural interfacing, and solar cells. A key feature of PIC technology growth has been the exploitation of high-density fabrication and packaging technology originally developed for the Silicon IC industry. PIC foundry services are emerging – and there has been a natural attempt to ascribe a “Moore’s Law” to PIC scaling. Analogiesto Silicon electronic scaling, however, should be used with caution. PIC complexity scaling may be driven more by the ability to access the degrees-of-freedom offered by PIC-based optical domain signal processing, rather than increasing device count. Specific examples of PIC research in chip-scale computer interconnects and integrated micro-concentrators for solar cells are highlighted.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Carole Berthet
Contact
- Loeffen Berthet Carole