Periodic Reporting for period 1 - PICaboo (Photonic Integrated Circuits on InP technology plAtform enaBling low cost metro netwOrks and next generation PONs)
Berichtszeitraum: 2021-01-01 bis 2022-06-30
Objective 1: Development of a polarization handling toolbox on the InP technology platform of TUe.
Objective 2: Development of balanced photodetectors and widely tunable laser on the InP platform of TUe.
Objective 3: Development of a high speed Selective-Area-Growth enabled PIC platform operating in the O-band based on III-V Lab’s InP Semi-Insulated Buried-Heterostructure technology.
Objective 4: Development of low-loss passive structures, high-speed EAMs, gain sections and DFB lasers on the novel SAG-SIBH platform of III-V Lab.
Objective 5: Generation of physical models of the developed building blocks in the form of PDK-compatible libraries.
Objective 6: Development of a dual polarization coherent receiver PIC leveraging all-optical DSP functions for optical metro networks and datacentre interconnect applications.
Objective 7: Development of EAM-based transmitter PICs employing all-optical pre-equalization on-chip for next generation PONs and 5G/6G fronthaul applications.
Objective 8: Validation of the developed PIC demonstrators and exploitation of project foreground in relevant application areas.
PICaboo will reduce the environmental footprint of metro/DCI and access networks by: a) migrating power hungry coherent DSP from the digital to the optical domain, b) relaxing DSP requirements at the transmitter-side via the all-optical equalization functionality and c) the possibility to operate the EAM-based transmitters at 55oC allowing for semi-cooled operation. Finally, PICaboo will foster the next generation of designers yielding a socioeconomic impact via the creation of new jobs for young entrepreneurs and innovators.