Silicon Photonics Summer School
| Topic | Speaker | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction and Evolution of Silicon Photonics | Prof. Roel Baets | Ghent University – imec, Belgium |
| Passive Silicon Photonics Building Blocks | Prof. Dries Van Thourhout | Ghent University – imec, Belgium |
| Active Silicon Photonics Building Blocks (Modulators and Detectors) | Dr. Laurent Vivien | Universite Paris Sud, France |
| Hybrid Silicon III-V lasers | Prof. Gunther Roelkens | Ghent University -imec, Belgium |
| Silicon Photonics Design Methodology (Devices) | Prof. Lukas Chrostowski | UBC, Canada |
| Silicon Photonics Design Methodology (Circuits) | Prof. Wim Bogaerts | Ghent University – imec, Belgium |
| Topic | Speaker | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| European Silicon Photonics Ecosystem | Dr. Abdul Rahim | Ghent University – ePIXfab, Belgium |
| AIM Photonics | Prof. Michael Watts | Analog Photonics, USA |
| CMOS Process Flow & Key Technology Steps for Silicon Photonics | Prof. Shankar Salvaraja | IISC, India |
| Challenges to Build and Maintain Silicon Photonics Process Flow | Dr. Philippe Absil | imec, Belgium |
| Packaging of Silicon Photonics Modules | Dr. Lee Carroll | Tyndall National Institute, Ireland |
| Topic | Speaker | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Silicon Photonics for (coherent) receivers | Prof. Jeremy Witzens | RWTH Aachen, Germany |
| Power Considerations for optical Interconnects | Prof. David Miller | Stanford University, USA |
| Silicon Photonics for mid-IR | Prof. Gunther Roelkens | Ghent University – imec, Belgium |
| Silicon Nitride Photonics | Dr. Michael Geiselmann | Ligentec, Switzerland |
| Microwave Silicon Photonics | Prof. Jose Capmany | Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain |
| Silicon Photonics for Biosensing | TBA | TBA |
| Spectroscopy on Chip | Prof. Roel Baets | Ghent University – imec, Belgium |
| Non-linear Silicon Photonics | Prof. Bart Kuyken | Ghent University – imec, Belgium |
| Topic | Speaker | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Programmable Silicon PICs | Prof. David Miller | Stanford University, USA |
| Optomechanics | Prof. Tobias Kippenberg | ETH, Switzerland |
| 2D Materials and Silicon Photonics | Prof. Marco Romagnoli | CNIT, Italy |
| Multilayer Silicon Photonics | Prof. Joyce Poon | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Stimulate Brillouin Scattering & its Applications | Prof. David Marpaung | University of Twente, Nederlands |
| MEMS based Optical Switching | Prof. Niels Quack | EPFL, Switzerland |
| Silicon Photonics for Emerging Applications: LiDAR | Dr. Jerome Bourderionnet | Thales, France |
| Quantum Optics | Prof. Dirk Englund | MIT, USA |
Download the detailed program here: Download Program
Specialized Silicon Photonics Design Course
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| Basic Concepts in PIC Design |
| What is PIC? |
| Difference Between Components & Circuits |
| Overall View of a Design Flow |
| Circuit Modelling Techniques |
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| PDK-driven Design Flow |
| Designing Circuits with Standard Building Blocks from a Fab PDK |
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| Custom Component Design |
| Defining Custom (parametric) Layout |
| Component Simulations |
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| Wavelength Filter Design |
| Basic Filter Principles |
| Designing AWGs, PCGs and Lattice Filters |
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| Verification and Preparation for Tape-out |
| Short Presentations about Participant’s Design Proposals |