JePPIX: the road to a multi-billion Euro market in InP-based Integrated Photonics

In the coming years the generic foundry approach will cause a revolution in micro and nanophotonics, just like it did in microelectronics thirty years ago. In Europe, three integration technology platforms are active for introducing the generic foundry concept for the major integration technologies in Photonics: JePPIX for InP-based monolithic integration, ePIXfab for silicon photonics, and TriPleX for low-loss dielectric waveguide technology. In this report, a roadmap for the development of generic InP-based integration technology is presented. It is a first version in a series, and will be updated and improved on a yearly basis.

A number of Multi Project Wafer (MPW) runs have been successfully executed within JePPIX.These have resulted in a large of number of functional PICs. Most of them lead to one of more scientific publications, of which the most important are listed here.

On Wednesday 9^th November 2011, TU Eindhoven, ASML, AgentschapNL and STW organised a Symposium on Photonic Integration in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

COBRA-ASML Symposium

• Trends in Photonics for ICT, prof. Harm Dorren, director COBRA
• Trends in Lithography, dr. Rob Hartman, director ASML