Low-coSt and energy-efficient hybrid Photonic integrated circuits for fibeR-optic, free-space optIcal and mmWave commuNication systems supporting Time critical networking in industrial EnviRonments

Project Information

SPRINTER

Grant agreement ID: 101070581

DOI 10.3030/101070581

EC signature date 23 June 2022

Start date 1 September 2022

End date 28 February 2026

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost € 7 076 605,75

EU contribution € 5 999 935,00

Coordinated by

EREVNITIKO PANEPISTIMIAKO INSTITOUTO SYSTIMATON EPIKOINONION KAI YPOLOGISTON
Greece

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (5)

Definition of application scenarios, system requirements and specifications at the network, module, and component level

This report will be devoted to the description of the application scenarios that will serve as a guide for the design and development of SPRINTER technology demonstrators and will identify a first set of the system specifications and requirements

Applicability and techno-economic analysis of SPRINTER technology

This report is devoted on the applicability and techo-economic analyis of SPRINTER technology.

Definition of methodology for the system evaluation of SPRINTER technology

The deliverable will describe the methodologies that will be followed for the characterization and the performance evaluation of SPRINTER technology

First exploitation and dissemination report and updated DMP

The deliverable will report on the project dissemination activities and exploitation plans of the consortium for Period 1 (M01-M18) of the project. It will also include any updates on the Data Management Plan that occurred during the same period.

Exploitation plans and dissemination/communication activities

The deliverable will report on the project dissemination activities and exploitation plans of the consortium for the project

Data Management Plan (1)

Data Management Plan

The deliverable will report on the data sets that will be made available in open repositories together with the necessary reference details for access to the open data

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

SPRINTER announcement (factsheet, short presentation, press release), Website and social accounts

The document will report on the preparation of basic material for the announcement of SPRINTER project to the general public through the official tools of the EC and the dissemination channels of the project The document will also report on the preparation of the project website and SPRINTER accounts in popular social media

SPRINTER promotion video

This deliverable will be a presentation of SPRINTER's promotional video

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (4)

InP/Si3N4 Hybrid Integrated Lasers for RF Local Oscillator Signal Generation in Satellite Payloads

Author(s): Jessica César-Cuello, Alberto Zarzuelo, Robinson C. Guzmán, Charoula Mitsolidou, Ilka Visscher, Roelof B. Timens, Paulus W. L. Van Dijk, Chris G. H. Roeloffzen, Luis González, José Manuel Delgado Mendinueta, Guillermo Carpintero
Published in: Photonics, Issue 12, 2025, ISSN 2304-6732
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/photonics12010077

Hybrid Photonic Integrated Circuits for Wireless Transceivers

Author(s): Tianwen Qian, Ben Schuler, Y. Durvasa Gupta, Milan Deumer, Efstathios Andrianopoulos, Nikolaos K. Lyras, Martin Kresse, Madeleine Weigel, Jakob Reck, Klara Mihov, Philipp Winklhofer, Csongor Keuer, Laurids von Emden, Marcel Amberg, Crispin Zawadzki, Moritz Kleinert, Simon Nellen, Davide de Felipe, Hercules Avramopoulos, Robert B. Kohlhaas, Norbert Keil, Martin Schell
Published in: Photonics, Issue 12, 2025, ISSN 2304-6732
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/PHOTONICS12040371

Folded electro-optical modulators operating at CMOS voltage level in a thin-film lithium niobate foundry process

Author(s): Alberto Della Torre, Florian Dubois, Homa Zarebidaki, Andrea Volpini, Jacopo Leo, Arno Mettraux, Ayman Manzoor, Ivan Prieto, Davide Grassani, Olivier Dubochet, Michel Despont, Hamed Sattari
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 33, 2025, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OE.548003

Investigation of the Long-Term Stability of a Local Oscillator Generator based on InP-Si3N4 Laser Source for Satellite Payloads

Author(s): Alberto Zarzuelo, Jessica César, Robinson Guzmán, Luis González, Charoula Mitsolidou, José Manuel Delgado Mendinueta, Roelof B. Timens, Paulus W. L. van Dijk, Chris G.H. Roeloffzen, Fernando Martin and Guillermo Carpintero
Published in: Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2024, ISSN 1558-2213
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2024.3368798

Conference proceedings (13)

RF Phase Arrays for the Millimeter/Terahertz Range Enabled by Photonics

Author(s): G. Carpintero, D. Headland, A. Piroutiniya, K. Spanidou, L. González-Guerrero, M. Ali, C. Tsokos, H. Avramopoulos, Z. Tegegne, G. Schwanke, M. Deumer, S. Nellen, S. Lauck, L. Liebermeister, R. Kohlhaas
Published in: 2025 International Conference on Mobile and Miniaturized Terahertz Systems (ICMMTS), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICMMTS62835.2025.10926032

Photonics-enabled millimeter-wave phase arrays based on dielectric rod antennas

Author(s): G. Carpintero, D. Headland, A. Piroutiniya, M. Ali, L. González-Guerrero, C. Tsokos, H. Avramopoulos, Z. Tegegne, G. Schwanke, M. Deumer, S. Nellen, S. Lauck, L. Liebermeister, R. Kohlhaas
Published in: 2024 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IPC60965.2024.10799706

Electro-Optic Modulator in Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Foundry Process

Author(s): Della Torre, Alberto; Zarebidaki, Homa; Leo, Jacopo; Mettraux, Arno; Choong, Gregory; Orvietani, Mattia; Petremand, Yves; Prieto, Ivan; Dubochet, Olivier; Despont, Michel; Sattari, Hamed
Published in: ECIO 2024, 2024, ISBN 978-3-031-63378-2
Publisher: SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-63378-2_87

Integrated Photonics-Based Electrical Multicarrier Generation System for Satellite Communications in the Ka and V Bands

Author(s): Jessica César-Cuello, Alberto Zarzuelo, Charoula Mitsolidou, Luis González Guerrero, Roelof B. Timens, Paulus W. L. Van Dijk, Chris G. H. Roeloffzen, José Manuel Delgado Mendinueta, Guillermo Carpintero
Published in: 2024 International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics (MWP), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/MWP62612.2024.10736311

Hybrid Integrated Microwave Photonics for Multi-Beam Antenna applications

Author(s): Roeloffzen, Chris; van Dijk, Paul; Maat, Peter; Visscher, Ilka; Hoekman, Marcel; Wevers, Lennart; Klein, Edwin; Timens, Roelof Bernardus; Mitsolidou, Charoula; Mohammad, Ahmad; Grootjans, Robert; Sahin, Furkan; Botter, Roel; Ruiz Pineda, Carlos Alfredo; Heuvink, Rick; Dekker, Ronald
Published in: 50th European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC 2024), 2025, ISBN 978-3-8007-6426-6
Publisher: VDE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15199147

Integrated microwave photonic functionalities on a hybrid integrated InP-Si₃N₄ PIC platform

Author(s): Chris Roeloffzen, Paul Van Dijk, Peter Maat, Ilka Visscher, Marcel Hoekman, Lennart Wevers, Edwin Klein, Roelof Bernardus Timens, Charoula Mitsolidou, Ahmad Mohammad, Robert Grootjans, Furkan Şahin, Roel Botter, Carlos Ruiz Pineda, Rick Heuvink, Ronald Dekker, Dong Liang, Sami Musa, Luis Gonzalez-Guerrero, Guillermo Carpintero
Published in: 2024 24th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2024, ISSN 2161-2064
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON62926.2024.10648027

A compact 100-GHz omnidirectional monopole probe dielectric resonator antenna enabled by micromachined silicon coaxial cavity

Author(s): Kalliopi Spanidou, Daniel Headland, Guillermo Carpintero
Published in: Terahertz, RF, Millimeter, and Submillimeter-Wave Technology and Applications XVIII, 2025
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.3041244

Demonstration of a silicon nitride optical beamforming network based on Blass-matrix architecture

Author(s): Loukisa, Eva; Andrianopoulos, Efstathios; Raptakis, Adam; Megas, Georgios; Gounaridis, Dimitrios; Grammatikaki, Adamantia M; Timens, Roelof Bernardus; van Dijk, Paul; Gounaridis, Lefteris; Groumas, Panos; Tsokos, Christos; Kouloumentas, Christos; Avramopoulos, Herakles; Roeloffzen, Chris
Published in: OFC 2025, 2025
Publisher: OFC
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15176457

Photonic Integrated Local Oscillator Signal Generation for Satellite Communications

Author(s): Alberto Zarzuelo, Jessica César, Robinson Guzmán, Luis González, José Manuel Delgado Mendinueta, Charoula Mitsolidou, Roelof B. Timens, Paul van Dijk, Chris Roeloffzen, Fernando Martín, Guillermo Carpintero
Published in: 2024 24th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON62926.2024.10647271

Ultralow Voltage Folded Electro-Optical Modulators in Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Foundry Process

Author(s): Della Torre, Alberto; Zarebidaki, Homa; Leo, Jacopo; Mettraux, Arno; Volpini, Andrea; Grassani, Davide; Prieto, Ivan; Dubochet, Olivier; Despont, Michel; Sattari, Hamed
Published in: CLEO 2024, 2024
Publisher: OPTICA
DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_AT.2024.AW3J.1

High power wavelength tunable external cavity laser for optical transmission

Author(s): Visscher, Ilka; Meijerink, Arjan; Botter, Roel; Zafar, Muhammad Mohsin; Mitsolidou, Charoula; Frentrop, Raimond; Andrianopoulos, Efstathios; Loukisa, Eva; Megas, Georgios; Lyras, Nikolaos; Massaouti, Maria; Tsokos, Christos; Avramopoulos, Hercules; van Dijk, Paul; Roeloffzen, Chris
Published in: Photonics West 2025, 2025
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.3041200

Multiplexing Multi-Gbps Analog Radio-Over-Fiber Links Over a Converged Fiber/FSO Intra-Campus Infrastructure

Author(s): Kanta, K., Lyras, N., Ntanos, A., Stathis, A., Toumasis, P., Tsokos, C., Giannoulis, G., Apostolopoulos, D., & Avramopoulos, H.
Published in: 2023 International Workshop on Fiber Optics on Access Networks (FOAN), 2023, ISBN 979-8-3503-1936-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/FOAN59927.2023.10328092

Towards high speed, low voltage electro-optical modulators in a foundry-process thin-film lithium niobate platform

Author(s): Della Torre, Alberto; Prieto, Ivan; Mettraux, Arno; Zarebidaki, Homa; Leo, Jacopo; Despont, Michel; Sattari, Hamed
Published in: SPIE-EU 2024 Integrated Photonics Platforms III, 2024
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15176067