Centre Teams

Design Team

As the design team, we understand that a complete silicon photonics design framework is crucial for success. We use the industry standard IPKISS design framework from our partner Luceda Photonics for design, simulation and layout.

To ensure that designs are industry-compliant and scalable to mass manufacture, we have created and continue to develop and support a number of significant plug-ins for the IPKISS framework, including direct interfaces (and PDKs) for a range of electron-beam lithography tools, automated characterisation tools, and a comprehensive electromagnetic simulation suite, REME.

The REME simulation suite is now available within Luceda Photonics' IPKISS design flow. For further information, please contact Luceda Photonics.

Fabrication Team

The fabrication team focuses on the fabrication of integrated optics platforms for different applications. The platforms include silicon photonic platform (Si and SiN), and Hybrid integrated silicon photonic platform (Si + 2D materials, Si + SiN, and Si + LN). We will develop PDKs for the platforms and make them ready for end-users to realize sophisticated systems.

Interfacing team

As the interfacing team, we understand that end-users would like to have robust and easy to use optical and electrical interfaces to photonic integrated circuit chips. We use different approaches for the interfacing of optical fibres to such chips, such as butt coupling and grating coupler with angle polished fibres. For electical contacts we usually use wire bonding to connect the photonic integrated circuit chips to standard PCB boards, however also custom solutions can be investigated.

Biomedical Applications Team

The Biomedical Applications team aims to make an impact in the future of diagnostics by offering advanced tests for the early prediction of illnesses. Our intention is to foster the development of individually tailored therapies for more personalized medicine. The team focuses on highly multi-faceted collaborative research spanning from the clinic and industry, to biochemistry, chip design, microfluidics, signal processing and bioanalytical assays among others in order to meet the needs required for the end-users. Among our aims is to operate across the translational research life cycle: development of complete Point of care applications that lead to clinical trials, which in turn feed new hypotheses back to the laboratory.