Integrated photonics
With a proven track record in advanced silicon photonics, R&D, and a state-of-the-art integrated silicon photonics and silicon nitride photonics platform, imec is your ideal development partner in realizing your silicon photonics solution.
Introduction
Our cutting-edge optical devices are processed at wafer scale in our in-house 200mm and 300mm CMOS pilot lines. They include high performance devices for light modulation, switching, coupling, filtering and detection at data rates of 50GB/s and beyond.
Use qualified reference components from our device library or explore your own custom silicon photonic designs implemented in our platform. Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) runs enable you to cost-efficiently manufacture silicon photonics devices with cutting-edge performance.
Click on the topics below to explore our state-of-the-art silicon photonics portfolio for research and development including prototyping and low-volume manufacturing:
Silicon photonic ICs for prototyping
Discover imec’s versatile high-performance silicon photonics platform, iSiPP, which enables competitive ICs for short reach optical interconnects.
Next-generation silicon photonics
Discover imec’s research into fully CMOS-compatible silicon-based optical links for datacom network, backplane, board, interposer and chip-level interconnects.
Silicon photonics design
Integrate silicon photonics in your computing or communication platform.
HI-PED
Want to boost your next-gen photonic applications? Imec is looking into high-performance integrated photonics electro-optic devices (HI-PED) to increase the performance of silicon photonics.
Silicon nitride-based photonics
Take advantage of imec's 200-mm commercial platforms for the dedicated development of your SiN-based photonic ICs.
H2020 MORPHIC project
In the H2020 MORPHIC project we develop a new class of programmable optical chips enabled by a combination of MEMS technology and Silicon Photonics. These chips can dramatically shorten the prototyping and deployment cycle of new photonic applications. More info on: https://h2020morphic.eu/
How can we help you?
What can we do for you?
- Our unique state-of-the-art 50Gb/ silicon photonics platform offers you an advanced development and prototyping facility for the realization of your customized silicon photonics solutions. Accelerate your product roadmap and shorten your time-to-market by leveraging our integrated platform in close collaboration with our development teams.
Why work with us?
- Our industrial affiliation program in optical I/O gives you access to the industry’s most advanced pre-competitive research into next generation integrated photonics. Join our global R&D ecosystem and access the most innovative research results.
- Our in-depth silicon photonics technology and design knowledge is supported by our expertise centers in advanced material and component analysis, modeling, metrology, reliability, process steps, systems technology co-optimization and more.
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