Project description
Unprecedented tuning of photonic resonators at the end of manufacturing
Nanoscale manufacturing, particularly of integrated photonics, has faced significant challenges in the resolution and error of cleanroom devices. Although the dimensional errors have been reduced to between 1 and 10 nanometres, manufacturing technology is pressed to keep up with the need for more and more components in increasingly compact spaces, both to limit losses and to enhance applicability. The ERC-funded TUPHO project aims to address this problem with its patented technique to resolve errors permanently at the end of the manufacturing process, enabling the tuning of photonic resonators with unprecedented accuracy. The project will enable the scientists to transpose the technique onto select silicon devices for easy use by manufacturers.
Objective
Silicon photonics has progressed enormously over the last 15 years: large microelectronics manufacturers and small companies are now working on the subject, with identified products. The reproducibility of micro and nanophotonic devices remains a central technological barrier, to be broken. The dimension errors of cleanroom devices are 1 to 10 nanometers (1%), limiting applications. We have discovered a technique that makes it possible to absorb these errors at the end of manufacturing, permanently. We can tune photonic resonators with an accuracy of 10^(-4), and make them strictly identical when necessary. In this POC project, the patented technique will be transposed on silicon devices of interest, in a simple configuration for manufacturers.
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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(opens in new window) ERC-2023-POC
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France
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