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Waferbonding and Active Passive Integration Technology and Implementation

Project description

Optical, opto-electronic, photonic functional components

WAPITI`s vision is the development/realisation settlement of a novel technology and its implementation in a new mesoscopic device generation that will enable crucial miniaturisation and cost reduction. WAPITI has identified waferbonding as the ideal/appropriate technology for the realisation of optical microcircuits integrating passive photonic / active optoelectronical and active photonic driven building blocks for novel functionalities and microsystems. WAPITI will demonstrate the potential and versatility of the technology in microring resonator building blocks in InGaAsP/InP bonded on GaAs wafers by realising ultra compact devices for MAN data rates: compact bus integrated microring WDM-lasers (1), high efficiency all-optical wavelength converters (2), and advanced multifunctional devices (3). (1) WDM lasers multiplexed in single mode waveguide technology (transparent bus waveguides) are a key building block for SDH/SONET and 2.5/10 GbE applications in the high volume MAN market. Attention will mainly be focussed on obtaining a small die footprint as this is the most crucial cost driving factor. (2) All-optical wavelength converters are key components in future versatile optical networks. WAPITI particularly aims to realise efficient wavelength converters based on novel passive bus/active microring architectures. (3) Furthermore, WAPITI will investigate, theoretically and experimentally, the possibility of realizing advanced functionalities (e.g. chromatic dispersion compensators, all-optical logic, optical mm wave generation) using the integrated microring structures. The device development will be supplemented by rigorous modelling and device analysis for component optimisation and exploitation purposes.

Call for proposal

FP6-2003-IST-2
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Coordinator

FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
EU contribution
€ 519 500,00
Address
Einsteinufer 37
10587 Berlin
Germany

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