Workpackage presentations

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Workpackage presentations
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WP1 Research Integration
Activity 3a
Activity 1c
Activity 1a
ePIXnet platform 3
ePIXnet platform 1
Activity 3b
Activity 1b
ePIXnet platform 2
Activity 2a
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Rules Criteria for new partnersDiscussion

• For Affiliate partners
• Switch to By invitation only ?
• Academic Affiliate partners should be excellent
  (prove!).
• Industrial Affiliate Partners need to be relevant
• At most one or two partners from each
  non-European country.That partner should be one
  of the top institutes for its country.
• Affiliate partners need to sign an NDA if they
  join an activity
• For full partners
• No plans for year 2
• New partners can come in in year three (approval
  by General Assembly needed). Budget will be
  changed accordingly

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WP2 JRE Objectives

• Junior researchers, typically PhD students, get
  the opportunity to stay for several weeks to
  several months at a partner institute with
  complementary know-how and skills. In this way
  they can get experience with the facilities of
  the partner institute and they get to know its
  researchers. This ensures effective collaboration
  afterwards.
• An important network instrument!
• Target 35 exchanges per year.
• Realised 29
• Planned 5

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Junior Exchange Budget

• Junior Researcher Exchange Budget
• 4K/partner/activity/year
• Turns out to be too much, while there is a need
  for more budget for activity meetings,
  consumables etc.
• Proposed action
• More flexibility
• While keeping motivation for Junior exchange
• Details to be elaborated

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WP2 JRE Example

• Pascual Munoz

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WP 2 Junior Research Exchange
A Case

• Sending Partner
• UPVLC-OGC
• Receiving Partner
• COBRA OED
• Requesting Partner
• UPVLC-OGC
• Exchange Period
• 5 July 2004 - 22 December 2004
• Name of Junior Researcher
• Pascual Muñoz Muñoz

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Outline

• Exchange motivation
• Objectives
• Technical Skills Exchanged
• Technical Results
• Personal Valoration

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Exchange Motivation

• P. Muñoz works about Arrayed Waveguide Gratings
  (AWG) design and modeling.
• OED leading FAA1 - Access to know-how on design
  and technology of monolithic integration of InP
  active and passive devices
• OED project on Ultra-Short Pulse Generation, chip
  architectures involving AWGs

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Objectives

• To provide a set of designs for optical chips
  that compress highly dispersed optical pulses,
  generated by mode-locked lasers, with the aim of
  enabling ultra fast (THz) data transmission. The
  device will be referred to as the Short Pulse
  Compressor (SPC). Subobjectives
• Establish the most suitable architecture for the
  SPC.
• Identify the constraints of the optical devices
  in the SPC architecture based on the knowledge of
  certain parameters for the input pulses.
• Produce a set of layouts for the devices in the
  SPC.
• Combine the devices to build the SPC.
• Combine several SPCs in a mask layout, along with
  suitable test structures.

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Technical Skills Exchanged
AWG design and modeling expertise
Laser modeling and mask design expertise
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Technical Results
Device Fabrication in Progress
Set of masks
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Personal Valoration

• ePIXnet, great framework to exchange knowledge on
  integrated optics
• basics of mask layout design learnt by OCG, bring
  theory closer to practice
• meeting people and visiting facilities directly
  is excellent for future colaborations

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WP3 Senior Staff Exchange

• Status
• Only 3 SSEs established (see website for
  details), in spite of multiple attempts to
  stimulate this activity
• Conclusion
• Original concept does not appeal (too ambitious?)
  and we need to adapt lower the threshold
• Proposal
• Allow also one-time exchanges with a duration of
  at least one-two weeks. Keep budget unchanged

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WP4 Network Annual Meeting
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WP5 Web-based Information Exchange

• Choice of the underlying website technology
  open source software

Operating System Gentoo linux
Server Apache
Content Management System Typo3
Based on
Powerful, reliable software, backed by an active
community
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WP5 Demonstration editing content
http//pcphotonics2.intec.ugent.be/epixnet/index.p
hp?id116
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WP5 Demonstration Add JRE
http//pcphotonics2.intec.ugent.be/epixnet/index.p
hp?id158
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WP6 Contractual Integration Activities

• Status
• Consortium agreement got signed by all partners
• No need so far for extra legal agreements
  between subsets of partners
• So far affiliate partners do not sign anything
• Future affiliate partners will sign an NDA if
  they get involved in a specific activity.
  Standard NDA draft available

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WP7-20 FAAs and JRAs

• See yesterday

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WP21 Industrial Affiliation
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Industrial Affiliation Board Mike Wale (Bookham
Technology) mike.wale_at_bookham.com
ePIXnet Annual Meeting 13.9.2005
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Industrial Participation in ePIXnet

• Partners in ePIXnet embrace a wide range of
  industries connected with stimulating, supporting
  and exploiting the technologies of photonic
  integration
• Manufacture of wafer fabrication equipment and
  metrology tools
• Device manufacturers
• Component and subsystem manufacturers
• Systems company users

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Purpose of the Board

• Advise the Steering Committee and Research
  Integration Board on industrial relevance of the
  Network activities
• Stimulate innovation within the Network
• Advise the Steering Committee and Contractual
  Integration Activities Board on Intellectual
  Property (IP) issues
• Encourage wider affiliate membership of the
  Network by interested companies

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Membership of Board

• Industrial Partners of ePIXnet
• Affiliate Companies

Affiliate companies are invited to send a
delegate to the annual Meeting and contribute to
all activities. Affililates do not receive
funding, but nor is there any fee. Affiliate
membership offers an informal route to
participation in the Network and engagement with
Network partners.
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Industrial Partners in ePIXnet

• AMO GmbH (Ges. für Angewandte Mikro- u.
  Optoelectronik mbH)
• Apogee (III-V Photonics/ASIP)
• Bookham
• Core Optics GmbH
• Leica Microsystems Lithography Ltd
• Raith GmbH
• Thales Research and Technologies

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Affiliate Companies

• Alcatel
• Phoenix BV
• CSEM
• Intense Photonics
• BAAS Research

We encourage affiliate participation in ePIXnet
and are actively seeking new members. Twelve new
companies have expressed interest so far and many
of these are represented here today.
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Industrial Guests at this Meeting

• Agilent
• ASML
• Cedova
• CIP
• Lionix
• Lucent
• Toshiba Research Europe
• u2t

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Development of Affiliate Partnerships and
Industrial Liaison

• Objective to set up an effective interaction
  with as many industrial players as possible who
  are relevant to the aims of ePIXnet
• Target at least 20 affiliate partners within
  first 18 months of the Network.
• Strong relationship with European Photonics
  Industry Consortium (EPIC), represented at this
  meeting by Dr Tom Pearsall

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Approach

• Industrial Workshop collocated with Annual
  Meeting starting 11.00 today
• Working contact by e-mail, phone conferences, web
  information exchange,
• Web site information for affiliates and potential
  affiliates
• Participation in working meetings of activity
  groups and annual meeting
• Suggestions for development of the Network are
  invited

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WP22 Education and Training

• ETA-Board Meint Smit (COBRA), Roel Baets
  (IMEC), Jesper Mork (COM), Thomas Krauss (StA),
  Pascal Besnard (ENSSAT)
• Overview of bachelor/master programs with a
  strong photonics core and comparison with
  situation at world level
• Status delayed
• Relevant developments ERASMUS MUNDUS proposals
  for a Joint Master on
• Broadband Telecommunication TechnologiesPartners
  COBRA, COM, INTEC and Polito (Networks ePIXnet
  ePHOTON/ONe)
• PhotonicsPartners Universities of Ghent and
  Brussels, KTH, StAndrews and Heriot Watt
  (Networks ePIXnet NEMO)
• Involvement of other ePIXnet partners planned,
  also in case of reject.

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ePIXnet Winter School Optoelectronic
Integration Technology and Applications
Organisers TF Krauss (St.Andrews), Rama Raj
(LPN/CNRS) Location Pontresina (Engadin,
Switzerlan) Timing March 12-18, 2006 Committee
P. Bienstman (Theory/Modelling), S. Anand
(Photonic Crystals/Technology), P. Viktorovitch
(Integration/PhC Lasers) Content III-V
Integration. Active/Passive Integration, Sources,
Growth, Technology. Emphasis on Devices.
Photonic Integrated Circuits. Includes
Simulation, Optimisation Silicon
Photonics Biophotonics The idea is to
include relevant technology and theory where
needed rather than having separate
sessions. Structure A healthy mix of talks
(60), poster sessions (20) and
discussion sessions (20) Participants Budget
for 80 or 100 students ?
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Speakers (Speakers in grey yet unconfirmed) Mode
lling Bienstman (Ghent), Midrio
(Udine) Sources Noetzel (Eindhoven), Benisty
(Palaiseau), Streubel (Osram) Heteroepitaxy v.
Thourhout (Ghent), Aspar (ex-LETI) Photonic
Crystals Notomi (NTT), Krauss (St. Andrews),
Anand (KTH), Raj (CNRS), Viktorovitch
(Lyon) Characterisation Anand (KTH), Kuipers
(AMOLF), Fiore (EPFL) Systems Leuthold
(Karlsruhe), Hadjifotou (ex- Nortel) Biophotonics
Dholakia (St.Andrews), Rigneault (Marseille),
Pepin (CNRS)
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M22.1 Call for proposals for the tutorial lecture
program

• Physics of single semiconductor quantum dots
  (QDs)
• Andrea Fiore
• Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
• Photonic Crystals basic concepts and
  applications.
• Dr. Pierre Viktorovitch
• Ecole Centrale de Lyon
• Presented at ECIO 05 and IAP Photon Doctoral
  School
• Target for M18 5 tutorials (from Winter School).

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WP23 External Dissemination activities

• D23.1 Policy document for collaboration with
  external organisations, including list of
  external organisations to be contacted
• Deliverable at M12
• Major future activity bring together all
  stakeholders who are relevant for the durable
  continuation of the network beyond the duration
  of the contract
• Contacts established so far EPIC, Dutch and
  Belgian Technology Funding Agencies

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WP23 Other dissemination activities

• Sponsoring PECS workshop Crete
• Sponsoring Tutorials at ECIO05 and IAP doctoral
  school
• Sponsoring Summer schoolSon et lumière from
  microphotonics to nanophononics
• ePIXnet presentations at
• Optro 05 Paris
• EuroTaiwan2005 EU-Taiwan IT Cooperation Event
  (April, Taipei Hsinchu)
• Phoremost, Crete

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WP24 Management, Administration and Quality
Assessment

• Some partners perceptionAdministration too
  complex, too many rules
• Networks coordinators perception
• Spend a lot of effort to make things as simple
  as possible
• Major problem communication between researchers
  and admin for 32 partners
• ? some frustration
• solution
• Ask for help and do not get frustrated
• We are all on a learning curve. Things will get
  better.
• There are ideas to make things simpler (without
  loosing out on objectives)

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Gender action plan

• Prof. Dr. Ursula Keller (keller_at_phys.ethz.ch)
• Dr. Silke Schön (schoen_at_phys.ethz.ch)

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Planned actions (p. 104 in ePIX proposal)

• Promote role models - Local webpages
  introducing the women of our NoE - To dos
  search engines should find this webpage
• Networking and self-support - First meeting
  took place in Mürren, Switzerland, April 1-3,
  2005 - To dos more meetings requested
  (somebody needs to organize it)
• Visibility and impact - Nominating qualified
  woman for fellowships, prices, conference
  committees, invited speakers etc. - One
  nomination has been done - To dos more need to
  be made!
• Extra position for female postdoc (cancelled for
  financial reasons)

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Gender meeting, April 1-3, 2005, Mürren

• Goal improve networking between the women
  scientists of our NoE - scientific
  information exchange in terms of future
  collaborations - gender issues with respect to
  improved networking and visibility
• Statistics 31 ePIX women (19 attended meeting,
  61)
• Organization of meeting - Scientific talks in
  the morning - podium discussions in the evening
  followed by a joined dinner - networking and
  getting to know each other during skiing in the
  afternoon

OrganizerDr. Silke Schön
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Gender meeting, April 1-3, 2005, Mürren

• Evening activities Role models, professional
  development All senior scientists (3 Uni, 1
  Industry), all have kids (1-3) Note all had
  permanent jobs before having children - Prof.
  Jaskorzynska, KTH - Prof. Tropper, ORC - Prof.
  Keller, ETHZ - Dr. Vodjdani, Thales Research
  Group

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Gender meeting, April 1-3, 2005, Mürren

• Wish list for next gender meeting - Coaching
  information/training specialized for female
  scientist needs (gender conflict management,
  typical female behavior with consequences or
  misinterpretation, presentation training
  etc.) - More role models and career advices
  (with more time for details and questions)
  comparison between the European countries -
  Next meeting again with extra time for networking