PROJECT DETAILS
| Name: |
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Next-Generation Integrated-optic Subsystems |
| Principal investigator: |
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Prof. Dr. Alfred Driessen |
| Member: |
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Milan Hubálek, MSc.; Ladislav Prkna, MSc. |
| From: |
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2001-09-01 |
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| To: |
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2004-08-31 |
The project is aimed at developing existing integrated optical microresonator
technology into a robust, densely-integrated active photonic platform, to create
an optical subsystem on a chip. The subsystem is expected to combine functions
such as high-speed optical modulation, wavelength multiplexing and filtering,
in a scalable manner, capable of handling many optical information channels
simultaneously. A new generation integrated optic technology will be developed
that eventually leads to low-power, highly manufacturable and hence low-cost
network subsystems on a chip which can be deployed in increasingly local optical
network nodes. Activities include the study of special passive and organic
electro-optic optical materials, the development and application of new design
tools, the technological realization and detailed characterization of devices,
and system studies assuring the relevance of the new devices and subsystems.
The role of the IREE team is the development and application of new design tools
for microresonator devices.
