Description du projet
Programme de formation en intégration photonique
L’intégration photonique (IP) permet d’offrir de multiples fonctions optiques dans un circuit intégré photonique sous forme de puce unique. Cette technologie a un impact considérable via la miniaturisation des dispositifs optiques et une diminution de la consommation d’énergie et des pannes d’équipement. Financé par le programme Actions Marie Skłodowska-Curie, le projet EDIFY vise à surmonter les défis actuels de la technologie IP en créant une plateforme de formation à la recherche dans le domaine émergent de la photonique intégrée et de la commercialisation de la fabrication de circuits. L’objectif est de former des chercheurs en début de carrière qui contribueront conjointement à l’amélioration des performances et de la consommation d’énergie des technologies IP ayant un impact sur les communications de données, le développement de capteurs, les diagnostics médicaux, la métrologie et la photonique grand public.
Objectif
Photonic integration (PI) is a new standard for providing cost effective and high-performance miniaturized optical systems for a wide range of applications. However, higher adoption of photonic IC-based products and services across a wide range of verticals still calls for several optimizations namely at the level of active material for the lasers, decrease of the overall waveguide loss and development of better predictive performance methodologies implemented in the Process Design Kits (PDK).
EDIFY will overcome this challenges by providing cutting-edge training to young researchers on the emerging field of integrated photonics and its translation into circuit fabrication and commercialization. EDIFY will train three ESRs at two world-leading European academic institutions and four industrial companies, thus forming a strong interdisciplinary network between industry and technical sciences to overcome specific barriers of the integrated photonics sector.
Skilled in a multidisciplinary background (i.e. photonics fundamentals, circuit design and dedicated software and nanofabrication modalities) EDIFY ESRs will jointly contribute for significant improvements in the performance, power consumption and predictive methodologies of current PICs technologies with direct impact in: data communications, fibre-tothe-
home, fibre sensors, gas sensing, medical diagnostics, metrology and consumer photonics.
The availability of professionals combining the EDIFY ESRs skills will directly fuel emerging PIC-based innovation and ensure its exploitation by the photonic industry. Importantly, with these emerging opportunities unique career opportunities will arise for the professionals involved in this technological step change in Photonic ICs segment.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistrypost-transition metals
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesopticslaser physics
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MSCA-ITN - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN)Coordinateur
36310 Vigo Pontevedra
Espagne