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Photonics project gets €8.5million funding
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04/09/2008
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The four year HELIOS project has been awarded an €8.5million grant from the EC to support its work aimed at combining a photonic layer with cmos circuitry.
HELIOS (pHotonics ELectronics functional Integration on CMOS), which is being coordinated by CEA-LETI, brings together 19 European partners and aims to make cmos photonics accessible to users using a foundry like approach.
Amongst the project’s objectives are:
· Development of high performance generic building blocks for a broad range of applications: WDM sources by III-V/Si heterogeneous integration, fast modulators and detectors, passive circuits and packaging · The building and optimisation of a production chain for complex functional devices. Integration of electronics and photonics in a single chip will be addressed not only at process level but also through the development of an adequate design environment
· Demonstrating the power of this production chain through complex photonic ics that address different needs. These include a 40Gbit/s modulator, a 10x10Gbit/s transceiver, a photonic QAM-10Gbit/s wireless transmission system and a mixed analogue and digital transceiver module for multifunction antennas.
The project will also investigate some promising, but more challenging, approaches such as silicon lasers and amorphous silicon modulators.
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Author
Graham Pitcher
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