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Phoenix, Sandia Partner on Photonic ICs

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ENSCHEDE, Netherlands, March 29, 2016 — Photonics design automation firm Phoenix Software and Sandia National Laboratories are collaborating to develop a photonics process design kit (PDK) for Sandia’s silicon photonics manufacturing process.

The collaboration directly addresses key challenges set in July 2015 by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Manufacturing Technology Program, which established the American Institute for Manufacturing (AIM) Photonics to develop “an end-to-end integrated photonics [ecosystem] in the U.S.” The combination of PhoeniX Software suite of photonic design tools and Sandia’s foundry services is meant to enable photonic designers to innovate in the field of integrated photonics, the companies said.

Silicon photonics holds the potential to become a cost-effective, scalable technology for the production of photonic integrated circuits to address applications including high-performance optical networking, data center interconnects, signal processing, and biological and chemical sensing.

Sandia National Laboratories is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corp., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. Its main facilities are in Albuquerque, N.M., and Livermore, Calif.
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Published: March 2016
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integrated photonics
Integrated photonics is a field of study and technology that involves the integration of optical components, such as lasers, modulators, detectors, and waveguides, on a single chip or substrate. The goal of integrated photonics is to miniaturize and consolidate optical elements in a manner similar to the integration of electronic components on a microchip in traditional integrated circuits. Key aspects of integrated photonics include: Miniaturization: Integrated photonics aims to reduce the...
photonics
The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
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