A generic foundry model in photonics / Low-cost access to photonic IC technology

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Progress in InP-based photonic integration

The application market for Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) is rapidly growing. Photonic Integration is the dominant technology in high bandwidth and long-distance tele-communications and is increasingly applied in shorter distances and within data centers. It is set to become dominant in many other fields of photonics. PICs offer compelling performance advances in terms of precision, bandwidth and energy efficiency. To enable uptake in new sectors, the availability of highly standardized (generic) photonic integration platform technologies is of key importance as this separates design from technology, reducing barriers for new entrants. Another major challenge is low-cost and energy-efficient integration of photonics with the electronic circuitry that is used for driving and controlling the photonic IC and processing its information. The major platform technologies today are Indium Phosphide (InP)-based monolithic integration and Silicon Photonics. InP-based technology offers integration of the full suite of photonic components, including lasers, optical amplifiers and highperformance modulators. In this paper we describe the current status and future developments of InP-based generic integration and we discuss the potential of InP-based Photonics for integration with electronics

Foundry based approach for InP based PIC development

Europe is making significant investments in development of generic photonic foundry platform infrastructures for InP-based and Silicon Photonic ICs. Here we present the present status for the InP-based JePPIX platform

Moore's law in photonics

Similarities and differences between photonic and microelectronic integration technology are discussed and a vision of the development of photonic integration in the coming decade is given

A new era for InP-based photonic integration

The prospects for InP-based Photonic Integration are rapidly increasing after a few difficult years that followed the telecom turndown in the beginning of the century. Main drivers are the evolution of the network towards 100 Gb/s and beyond, and the emergence of Generic Photonic Integration Technologies. In the presentation an overview of the development of InP-based photonic integration will be given and the future prospects will be discussed

InP membrane on silicon integration technology

Integration of light sources in silicon photonics is usually done with an active InP-based layer stack on a silicon-based photonic circuit-layer. InP Membrane On Silicon (IMOS) technology integrates all functionality in a single InP-based layer

Preliminary results of an investigation into the potential application of X-band SLR images for crop-type inventory purposes

Preliminary results are reported of an investigation into the potential application of SLR images (by which we mean both SAR and SLAR images) for crop-inventory purposes employing temporal dependency to obtain multi-dimensional observations. To evaluate this potential, SLR-image data are simulated, and subsequently classified. The results, which are restricted to VV-polarized X-band data, `taken' at a typical SLAR angle of 20 degrees (grazing), indicate that an over all average error fraction of less than 20 percent can be reached for the region involved, with less than 5-percent error for some crop