JePPIX

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JePPIX
Joint European Platform for InP-basedPhotonic
Integrated Components Circuits

• Coordinator COBRA
• e-mail info_at_jeppix.eu
• web http//www.jeppix.eu
• Platform Partners COBRA, CNRS, COM, KTH,
  Bookham, Cedova, CIP, Phoenix, Photon Design,
  ASML, Aixtron, OPT, TU/e Innovation Lab

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JePPIX in one slide
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Contents

• What?
• education and training
• design assistance
• device fabrication
• foundry service of standard fabrication processes
• project-based development of new processes
• How?
• structure
• steering group
• coordination
• funding

• To Whom?
• users

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What? - example of ePIXnet FAA1

• 5 partners
• sharing one wafer
• 7 different devices
• flip-flop
• N-bit XOR-gate
• Transceiver
• 2R-regenerator
• XWG
• WLC
• ring laser

1.3x1.3cm2
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Active-Passive Integration process
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What? - JePPIX services to users
Phase 1 2006 - 2008
idea
proof of concept
design
realisation
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Foundry service of standard processes

• 6 Nov 2006
• 2 weeks training in Photonic IC design
  Technology
• design course on waveguiding, MMIs, AWGs
• fabrication processes
• Nov/Dec 06
• 4 weeks design support
• assistance with mask design
• Jan 07 - Apr 07 - Sept 07
• 3 fabrication runs per year
• active-passive samples, 1.3x1.3cm2

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Development of new processes and know-how

• The capabilities of JePPIX will be developed
  through projects that extend the available
  technologies.
• Examples
• ePIXnet activities.
• EU-FP7 projects
• national research projects
• A framework for handling IP considerations is
  being developed

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JePPIX platform partners
Academic Research COBRA, CNRS, COM, KTH
Manufacturing RD Bookham, Cedova, CIP
Coordinator
Photonic CAD Phoenix, Photon Design
Equipment RD ASML, Aixtron, Oxford
Plasma Techology
Platform support TU/e Innovation Lab
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Platform organisation structure
Steering Group
RD through projects Emphasis on project
facilitation Flat organisation
(User)
Photonic CAD
Coordinator
Platform Partner
Platform Partner
Platform Partner
Platform Partner
Platform Partner
Platform Partner
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To whom? - RD projects and start-ups
IndustrialResearch Projects
European Research Projects
Startups
ePIXnet Joint Research Activities
National Research projects
Trans-National Research projects
InP-based Integration Technology Platform
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Users

• ePIXnet Joint Research Activities (coming 2
  years)
• "JRA InP AWG" active-passive AWG-based devices
• "JRA QD-Arrays" quantum dot arrays for signal
  processing
• "JRA iPQD" quantum dot devices
• "JRA Signal Processing" optical signal
  processing devices
• "JRA Short Pulses" linear mode-locked lasers
• "JRA SAW" surface acoustic waves modulators

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Steering Group role

• accept new partners relevant contribution to
  technological or knowledge infrastructure.
• accept new user projects
• use of the infrastructure
• contribute to the infrastructure
• set-up guidelines for intellectual property
  handling
• oversee the operation of the platform

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JePPIX coordinator role

• Report to Steering Group
• propose "components" of the platform (tools for
  design, modelling and fabrication)
• coordinate the decision-making processes about
  the shared access to the facilities
• stimulate and coordinate technology integration
  between academic and industrial research labs
• set-up platform users guidelines and see if
  their are followed properly
• help users with project definition
• establish a web-based knowledge structure
  (http//www.jeppix.eu)

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Platform support

• TU/e innovation lab
• start-up assistance for individual users after
  an RD project has ended

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Financing

• Coordination costs paid by ePIXnet.
• Funding of operation costs through RD projects
  
• for ePIXnet activities marginal costs
• for other projects full costs partially charged
  to projects and remaining part from structural
  funding

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Agenda for coming year

• November 06 design course (register at
  info_at_jeppix.eu)
• December 06 design support (register at
  info_at_jeppix.eu)
• Active-Passive fabrication runs in Jan 07, Apr
  07, Sep 07
• November 30, 2006 JePPIX Symposium

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JePPIX Symposium - November 30
concept programme

• Photonic Integrated Circuits
• Advanced tunable lasers - Bookham
• Various functional devices - COBRA
• Fast pulse laser - COBRA
• Quantum Dot devices - COBRA
• JePPIX
• Foundry Service
• Applications
• Introduction Mike Wale
• PICs for Access Genexis
• PICs for Sensors - Van der Hoek Photonics
• PICs for Medical Applications - AMC
• PICs for Metrology - TOPTICA
• . -
• IEEE/LEOS Benelux Meeting

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• Attendees SG-meeting
• Mike Wale - Bookham
• Richard Penty - Cambridge (by phone/Skype)
• Paul van Dijk - ASML
• Meint Smit - COBRA
• Jan Hendrik den Besten - COBRA

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• Attendees partner/user-meeting
• Jørn Hvam - COM Pascual Munoz - UPVLC
• Mike Wale - Bookham Michael Robertson - CIP
• Neil Whitbread - Bookham
• Paul van Dijk - ASML
• Frank Schulte - Aixtron
• Srinivasan Anand - KTH
• Tom Pearsall - EPIC
• Oliver DeHaese - INSA
• Rozenn Piron - INSA
• Meint Smit - COBRA
• Jan Hendrik den Besten - COBRA

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How? - JePPIX partner roles
Manufacturability
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