We are a cluster of European silicon photonics R&D projects. Our projects are funded by European and national funding mechanisms. The European silicon photonics projects collaborate on dissemination and training activities, and on knowledge and technology transfer from R&D to industry.

News

  • 07/06/2011: Presentations of the Silicon Photonics Workshop now on-line
  • 05/05/2011: Summer school on Silicon Photonics, organized by FP7 Helios and UK Silicon Photonics project
  • 15/04/2011: Silicon Photonics Workshop, 23 May 2011, 13:30-18:00, Munich
  • 23/06/2010: Helios project announces on-line course on silicon photonics

    • Projects

  • Boom (FP7) - www.ict-boom.eu Terabit-on-chip: Micro and Nano-scale silicon photonic integrated components and sub-systems enabling Tb/s capacity, scalable and fully integrated photonic routers.
  • Historic (FP7) - www.ict-historic.eu Heterogeneous InP on Silicon Technology for Optical Routing and Logic.
  • Helios (FP7) - www.helios-project.eu Photonics Electronics functional integration on CMOS.
  • Intopsens (FP7) - www.intopsens.eu A highly integrated optical sensor for point of care label free identification of pathogenic bacteria strains and their antibiotic resistance.
  • PhotonFAB (FP7) - www.photonfab.eu Silicon photonics fabless access broker - lowering the barriers for access to silicon photonics IC technology
  • Platon (FP7) - www.ict-platon.eu Tb/s optical routing fabrics for optical interconnects adopting plasmonics.
  • SOFI (FP7) - www.sofi-ict.eu Silicon-organic hybrid fabrication platform for integrated circuits.
  • UK Silicon Photonics (UK - EPSRC) - www.uksiliconphotonics.co.uk UK Silicon photonics project
  • Wadimos (FP7) - wadimos.intec.ugent.be Wavelength division multiplexed photonic layer on CMOS
    • Finished projects
  • Sabio (FP6) - ist-sabio.org Ultrahigh sensitivity slot-waveguide biosensor on a highly integrated chip for simultaneous diagnosis of multiple diseases.