Descripción del proyecto
Malla uniforme bidimensional y programable de guía de ondas fotónicas
Las tecnologías fotónicas y el «hardware» óptico son esenciales para una amplia gama de aplicaciones, desde sensores y observatorios hasta telecomunicaciones y tecnologías digitales. Ello ha hecho que su desarrollo e investigación sean muy prometedores y solicitados por múltiples industrias y campos de investigación. El proyecto NU-MESH, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, abordará las limitaciones y los retos que plantea el desarrollo y la validación de la tecnología matriz de puerta fotónica programable en campo (FPPGA, por sus siglas en inglés). El proyecto se centrará en desarrollar y mejorar el núcleo del procesador de malla de guía de ondas fotónicas uniforme y programable bidimensionalmente. Asimismo, explorará tecnologías y metodologías para superar la limitada flexibilidad de la malla y resolver las limitaciones de periodicidad espectral mediante células defectuosas.
Objetivo
Programmable integrated photonics (PIP) is an emerging new paradigm that aims at designing common integrated optical hardware resource configurations, capable of implementing an unconstrained variety of functionalities by suitable programming. The work carried out within the Advanced Grant ERC-ADG-2016-741415 UMWPCHIP of which I was the Principal Investigator, allowed me to lay the foundation for the first technical stages of a novel revolutionary concept, the Field Programmable Photonic Gate Array (FPPGA), developed in the context of a Proof-of-concept Grant ERC-POC-2019-859927-FPPAs. Currently, the core of the processor is a uniform 2D
programmable photonic waveguide mesh, formed by replicating hexagonal unit cells. This layout suffers from limited flexibility in the spectral period and sampling time values. The challenge is to develop and demonstrate solutions that overcome these limitations and which can be easily incorporated into existing mesh designs.
In NP-Mesh I aim to demonstrate and validate the concept of non-periodic programmable photonic integrated waveguide meshes formed by embedding defect cells into the otherwise uniform 2D hexagonal mesh. Including defect cells solves the problem of spectral period limitation through the exploitation of the Vernier effect as well as the as the sampling time resolution limitation of the uniform waveguide mesh.
My working roadmap will include: 1) carrying out the required research activities linked to the development of the proposed technical concepts, 2) validating them through outsourced chip fabrication in an external foundry followed by measurement and characterization experiments carried out in my lab at UPV, 3) generating the new intellectual property rights (IPRs) for the new results via patent writing and application and transferring the new IPR to the spinoff company iPronics, which I co-founded three years ago with the help of ERC-POC-2019-859927-FPPAs.
Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Convocatoria de propuestas
(se abrirá en una nueva ventana) ERC-2023-POC
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HORIZON-ERC-POC -Institución de acogida
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