Project description FET Open cut-off 14/3/2006 Show the project objective Hide the project objective SPLASH addresses the issues of optical switches, tunable delay lines and optical buffering that is essential for realising the vision of all-optical data processing. The consortium will realise these functions by exploring optical slow light structures based on coupled ring resonators and photonic crystal waveguides. The core demonstrators are,a) Broadband slow light. Photonic crystal waveguides that combine sizeable slowdown factors with broad bandwidth and efficient optical coupling. b) Tunable coupler. By exploiting slow light phenomena in photonic crystals, the coupler will be very compact (10's of µm), yet require only refractive index changes of order 10-3 for complete switching. Tuning will be thermo-optic, electro-optic and all-optical.c) Tunable delay line. Tunable ring resonators will be used to continuosly control the delay properties of a system of coupled resonators.d) Switchable optical storage. By tuning/detuning the elements of a coupled resonator delay line, optical information will be stored.Structures will be realised in silicon on insulator technology to achieve the maximum compactness and maximum number of bits stored/unit area. Fields of science natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistrymetalloidsnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata processingnatural sciencesphysical sciencestheoretical physicsparticle physicsphotons Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) 2.3.4.1 b9 - 2.3.4.1.b9 FET open Call for proposal FP6-2002-IST-C See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS EU contribution € 450 000,00 Address North Haugh KY16 9SS St. Andrews United Kingdom See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Total cost No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE France EU contribution € 181 000,00 Address 3, RUE MICHEL-ANGE 75794 PARIS CEDEX 16 See on map Total cost No data POLITECNICO DI MILANO Italy EU contribution € 167 000,00 Address PIAZZA LEONARDO DA VINCI 32 20133 MILANO See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Total cost No data STICHTING VOOR FUNDAMENTEEL ONDERZOEK DER MATERIE - FOM Netherlands EU contribution € 224 000,00 Address VAN VOLLENHOVELAAN 659 3527 JP UTRECHT See on map Activity type Research Organisations Total cost No data THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW United Kingdom EU contribution € 278 000,00 Address UNIVERSITY AVENUE G12 8QQ GLASGOW See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Total cost No data