Research Topics

ePIXfab: Silicon Photonics Platform

Research Area: Photonic ICs

Main Researcher: Pieter Dumon

The Silicon Photonics Platform provides access to wafer-scale CMOS fabrication facilities for research and prototyping of photonic integrated circuits by academic and industrial R&D groups.

The mission of the Silicon Photonics Platform is to build a future for Silicon Photonics in Europe through the development of a fabless model for the fabrication of silicon photonic circuits based on existing CMOS labs and commercial foundries relying on European know-how.

This should be done by involving all interested parties, from academia, industy and policy-making bodies.

The Silicon Photonics platform has the following tasks:

A Facility Access Programme for Research and Prototyping: Making mature fabrication processes on high-end industrial CMOS tools available to many research groups or projects will ease the transition toward a fabless model. Also by sharing masks and processing, a dramatic cost reduction is possible.

A Roadmap for Silicon Photonics Technologies: Identifying the requirements for a fully-functional silicon photonic IC, and make plans for required process development

Commercial Manufacturing Routes: Links and possibilities for process transfers to commercial foundries should be looked into to enable future commercial fabrication of silicon photonic components in high volume.

Promotion and Lobbying for the field of Silicon photonics in the interest of Europe’s position in this field

Other people involved:

Related Research Projects

ICT: PhotonFAB (Silicon Photonic IC Fabless Access Broker)
ICT: HELIOS (pHotonics ELectronics functional Integration on CMOS)

Publications
International Journals

W. Bogaerts, S. Selvaraja, P. Dumon, J. Brouckaert, K. De Vos, D. Van Thourhout, R. Baets, Silicon-on-Insulator Spectral Filters Fabricated with CMOS Technology,J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. (invited), 16(1), p.33-44 (2010)  .
F.Y. Gardes, A. Brimont, P. Sanchis, G. Rasigade, D. Marris-Morini, L. O'Faolain, F. Dong, J.M. Fedeli, P. Dumon, L. Vivien, T.F. Krauss, G.T. Reed, J. Marti, High-speed modulation of a compact silicon ring resonator based on a reverse-biased pn diode,Optics Express, 17(24), p.21986-21991 (2009)  .
D. Néel, T. Benyattou, P. Sanchis, J. Martí, W. Bogaerts, P. Dumon, R. Baets, Optical near-field study of photonic crystal tapers,Applied Optics, 48(30), p.5718-5721 (2009)  .
T. Vallaitis, S. Bogatscher, L. Alloatti, P. Dumon, R. Baets, M.L. Scimeca, I. Biaggio, F. Diederich, C. Koos, W. Freude, J. Leuthold, Optical properties of highly nonlinear silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) waveguide geometries,Optics Express, 17(20), p.17357-17368 (2009)  .
A. Kazmierczak, W. Bogaerts, E. Drouard, F. Dortu, P. Rojo-Romeo, F. Gaffiot, D. Van Thourhout, D. Giannone, Highly Integrated Optical 4x4 Crossbar in Silicon-on-Insulator Technology,Journal of Lightwave Technology, 27(16), p.3317-3323 (2009)  .
P. Dumon, W. Bogaerts, R. Baets, J.-M. Fedeli, L. Fulbert, Towards foundry approach for silicon photonics: silicon photonics platform ePIXfab,Electronics Letters (invited), 45(12), p.581-582 (2009)  .
Jana Jagerska, Nicolas LeThomas, Vasily Zabelin, Romuald Houdre, W. Bogaerts, P. Dumon, R. Baets, Experimental observation of slow mode dispersion in photonic crystal coupled-cavity waveguides,Optics Letters, 34(3), p.339-341 (2009)  .
L.Y.M. Tobing, P. Dumon, R. Baets, M.K. Chin, Box-like filter response based on complementary photonic bandgaps in 2D micro-resonator arrays,accepted for publication in Optics Letters, (to be published).
P. Dumon, W. Bogaerts, A. Tchelnokov, J.-M. Fedeli, R. Baets, Silicon Nanophotonics,Future Fab International (invited), 25, p.29-36 (2008)  .
Landobasa Y.M. Tobing, Desmond C.S. Lim, P. Dumon, R. Baets, Mee-Koy Chin, Finesse enhancement in silicon-on-insulator two-ring resonator system,Applied Physics Letters, 92, p.101122 (2008)  .
Landobasa Y.M.A.L. Tobing, P. Dumon, R. Baets, Desmond C.S. Lim, Mee-Koy Chin, The Transmission Properties of One-Bus Two-Ring Devices,IEICE Transactions on Electronics (invited), E91-C(2), p.167-172 (2008)  .
S. Darmawan, Y.M. Landobasa, P. Dumon, R. Baets, M.K. Chin, Nested-Ring Mach-Zehnder Interferometer in Silicon-on-Insulator,IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 20(1), p.9-11 (2008)  .

International Conferences

W. Bogaerts, P. Dumon, S. Selvaraja, D. Van Thourhout, R. Baets, Silicon nanophotonic waveguide components,Silicon Nanoelectronics and Photonics (SiNEP) 2009 (invited), Spain, p.33-34 (2009)  .
T. Vallaitis, D. Hillerkuss, J.-S. Li, R. Bonk, N. Lindenmann, P. Dumon, R. Baets, M.L. Scimeca, I. Biaggio, F. Diederich, C. Koos, W. Freude, J. Leuthold, All-Optical Wavelength Conversion Using Cross-Phase Modulation at 42.7 Gbit/s in Silicon-Organic Hybrid (SOH) Waveguides,Photonics in Switching 2009, Italy, (2009)  .
J.V. Galan, P. Sanchis, J. Marti, S. Marx, H. Schroeder, B. Mukhopadhyay, T. Tekin, S. Selvaraja, W. Bogaerts, P. Dumon, L. Zimmermann, CMOS compatible silicon etched V-grooves integrated with a SOI fiber coupling technique for enhancing fiber-to-chip alignment,6th IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics, United States, p.ThP13 (2009)  .
K. De Vos, P.P.P. Debackere, T. Claes, J. Girones, W.A.D. De Cort, E. Schacht, R. Baets, P. Bienstman, Label-free biosensors on silicon-on-insulator optical chips,SPIE Optics and Photonics (invited), 7397(37), United States, (2009)  .
W. Bogaerts, L. Liu, S. Selvaraja, J. Brouckaert, D. Taillaert, D. Vermeulen, G. Roelkens, D. Van Thourhout, R. Baets, Silicon nanophotonic waveguides and their applications,Asia-Pacific Optical Communications (APOC) 2008 (invited), 7134, China, p. 71341O-71341O-13 (2008)  .
T. Tekin, H. Schröder, L. Zimmermann, P. Dumon, W. Bogaerts, Fibre-Array Optical Interconnection for Silicon Photonics,ECOC 2008, p.P.2.21 (2008)  .
L.Y.M. Tobing, P. Dumon, R. Baets, M.-K. Chin, Box-like filter response of two-dimensional array of microring resonator fabricated in silicon-on-insulator technology,Group IV Photonics, Italy, p.ThC7 (2008)  .
L. Zimmermann, H. Schroeder, T. Tekin, W. Bogaerts, P. Dumon, g-Pack – a generic testbed package for Silicon photonic devices,Group IV Photonics, Italy, p.FB4 (2008)  .
L.Y.M. Tobing, P. Dumon, R. Baets, M.-K. Chin, Defect modes in microring resonator arrays fabricated in silicon-on-insulator technology,Group IV Photonics, Italy, p.ThP13 (2008)  .
J. Brouckaert, G. Roelkens, S. Selvaraja, W. Bogaerts, P. Dumon, S. Verstuyft, D. Van Thourhout, R. Baets, Compact Silicon-on-Insulator Wavelength Demultiplexer with Heterogeneously Integrated InAlAs/InGaAs Photodetectors,ECOC 2008, Belgium, p.Tu.4.C.5 (2008)  .
J. Roels, W. Van der Tempel, D. Van Nieuwenhove, R. Grootjans, M. Kuijk, D. Van Thourhout, R. Baets, A dynamic subwavelength pitch grating modulator for continuous Time-Of-Flight ranging with optical mixing,Optical MEMS&Nanophotonics 2008, Germany, p.176-177 (2008)  .
J. M. Brosi, C. Koos, L. C. Andreani, P. Dumon, R. Baets, J. Leuthold, W. Freude, 100 Gbit/s / 1 V Optical Modulator with Slotted Slow-Light Polymer-Infiltrated Silicon Photonic Crystal,accepted for publication in 2008 Slow and Fast Light Topical Meeting, United States, (to be published)  .
C. Koos, P. Vorreau, P. Dumon, R. Baets, B. Esembeson, I. Biaggio, T. Michinobu, F. Diederich, W. Freude, J. Leuthold, Highly-Nonlinear Silicon Photonics Slot Waveguide,Optical Fiber Communications Conference 2008, United States, p.PDP25 (2008)  .
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