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InP DHBT MMIC Technology for Millimeter-Wave Power Applications (IN-POWER)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

"With the advent of smart phones, tablets and connected cameras, mobile data traffic is growing at a very fast pace. The capacity of mobile backhaul network must be increased to deal with this data explosion. In that respect there is at present an increased interest in exploiting the millimeter-wave frequency range (30-300 GHz) for wireless backhauling. The progress in semiconductor device technol ...
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Generic Technologies for WDM Transmitter Photonic Integrated Circuits (GeTPICs)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The project aims at achieving the improvement of Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) building blocks (BBs) for generic integration technology, the design and fabrication of high bit-rate transmitter PICs, typically WDM 10x 25Gbps and 4x 25GBau Tx PIC as test vehicles for the deve-loped BBs, and finally the test and validation of the fabricated PICs in a transmission environment. The program addresse ...
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Photonic Libraries And Technology for Manufacturing (PLAT4M)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Description "PLAT4M will make silicon photonics ready for transition to industry"Silicon is now a mature integration platform that has brought CMOS microelectronics to mass-market application. The PLAT4M vision is that silicon photonics will lead to a similar revolution in the photonics sector.Over the past years silicon photonics has see ...
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PAssive and electro-optic polymer photonics and InP electronics iNtegration for multi-flow Terabit transceivers at edge SDN switcHes and data-centER gateways (PANTHER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Multi-rate, multi-format and multi-reach operation of optical transceivers is important, but it is not enough for next generation terabit products. What is still missing to make these products viable is a solution for the flexible control of this enormous capacity at the optical layer and its distribution among a number of independent optical flows. PANTHER aims to provide this solution and develo ...
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Broadband Integrated and Green Photonic Interconnects for High-Performance Computing and Enterprise Systems (BIG PIPES)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Big Data requires Big Pipes. Driven by mobile devices, cloud computing and machine-to-machine Internet, the amount of data processed by data centres continues to grow with a steep progression. Ongoing trends in server virtualisation and green computing morph the data centre architecture and place increasing constraints on the interconnect technology. To meet the need for increased bandwidth, trans ...
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Integrated Photonic Broadband Radio Access Units for Next Generation Optical Access Networks (IPHOBAC-NG)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

IPHOBAC-NG addresses application-specific lasers, optical modulators and detectors to construct novel photonic millimeter-wave radios (PMWR) providing a) complementary broadband 1-10 Gb/s wireless access and b) 3 Gb/s mobile backhaul; both being seamlessly integrated in next generation optical access (NGOA) networks based upon a WDM-PON infrastructure. The proposed PMWR will employ novel radio acc ...
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Energy efficient Silicon transmittEr using heterogeneous integration of III-V QUantum dOt and quantum dash materIAls (SEQUOIA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Silicon photonics is a powerful way to combine the assets of integrated photonics and CMOS technologies. The SEQUOIA project intends to make significant new advances in silicon photonic integrated circuits by heterogeneously integrating novel III-V materials, namely quantum dot and quantum dash-based materials on silicon wafers, through wafer bonding. Thanks to the superior properties of those inn ...
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Mid InfraRed Innovative lasers For Improved SENSor of hazardous substances (MIRIFISENS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The mid-infrared (MIR) region is emerging as the favourite wavelength band for a number of applications, including high sensitivity trace detection, chemical emission monitoring, process control, and biological sensing applications. An efficient way to get precise and reliable information is to rely on spectroscopic analysis and, among the existing technologies, Tunable Diode Laser Spectroscopy (T ...
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FDMA Access By Using Low-cost Optical Network Units in Silicon Photonics (FABULOUS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

Description A flexible architecture compatible with current infrastructures and low cost components based on silicon photonics: the keys for mass Fiber-To-The-Home ultra-broadband deployment FABULOUS will design, develop and characterize new Silicon Photonics components for application in next-gen ...
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High Brightness Semiconductor Laser Sources for Space Applications in Earth Observation (BRITESPACE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

The availability of suitable laser sources is one of the key issues for the development of active optical instruments in future earth observation missions. The main objective of this project is to demonstrate the feasibility of a semiconductor based laser source to be used as a laser transmitter in a Differential- Absorption LIDAR (DIAL) system for the observation and monitoring of greenhouse gase ...
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COst-effective COhereNt Ultra-dense-WDM-PON for lambda-To-the-user access networks (COCONUT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

The COCONUT proposal aims at the definition, study and realization of a new fully scalable optical access network significantly extending the network dimensions in terms of bandwidth utilization, reach and number of accommodated users. The envisioned access network evolves from the almost-commercial WDM-PON architecture to the realisation of the Ultra-Dense WDM solutions, opening the way to the "w ...
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The DIStributed Core for unlimited bandwidth supply for all Users and Services (DISCUS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

DISCUS will analyse, design, and demonstrate a complete end-to-end architecture and technologies for an economically viable, energy efficient and environmentally sustainable future-proof optical network. It will provide a revolution in communications networks applicable across Europe and the wider world exploiting to the full the opportunity offered by LR-PONS and flat optical core networks to pro ...
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Detection of Olfactory traces by orthoGonal Gas identification technologIES (DOGGIES)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

"Border security is one of the key security challenges to be taken up by Europe in the following years. In particular, the deployment of practical efficient means to detect hidden persons and illegal substances at border crossing points is instrumental in avoiding terrorism, human trafficking or smuggling.The DOGGIES project aims at demonstrating (1) an operational movable stand alone sensor for a ...
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Postgraduate Research on Photonics as an Enabling Technology (PROPHET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

"Photonics is an important enabling technology for a wide range of applications in diverse areas. The photonics industry in Europe accounted for revenues of €49 billion in 2006, and is expected to soon exceed that of microelectronics. In the training network proposed here, a cohort of 14 early stage researchers and 5 young experienced researchers will be trained in the full gamut of skills require ...
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"Novel semiconductor Optical sources for Metrology, Signal PrOcessing and Space applications." (NOMOS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

"The purpose of this study is to review and assess novel technique of stabilized sub-picosecond optical pulse production based on compact and efficient semiconductor mode-locked lasers for application in LIDAR via the design, manufacturing and performance characterization. The design and assessment of selected semiconductor mode-locked laser architecture is based on considerations and trade-offs o ...
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VEry LOw jitter MOde LOcked laser at 780nm for optical sampling applications (VELO MOLO_780)

Start date: Sep 2, 2013, End date: Sep 1, 2015,

"The project investigates prospective configuration of pulsed laser source for the use in photonic assister analog to digital converters. This application oriented project is based on strong interdisciplinary linkage and aims to develop compact, efficient and low cost pulsed sources.System requirements for a pulsed laser source are to be met by means of mode-locking from either monolithic laser di ...
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Photonic Advanced Research And Development for Integrated Generic Manufacturing (PARADIGM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2015,

The objective of PARADIGM is to effect a fundamental change in the way photonic integrated circuits (PICs) based on indium phosphide (InP) are designed and manufactured in Europe, with the aim of reducing the costs of design, development and manufacture by more than an order of magnitude and making more complex and capable designs possible than ever before.The key step is to develop a generic plat ...
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HYbrid III-V/Silicon laSer for the future generation of Photonic integrated circuits (HYSSOP)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

"The present project embraces the field of Silicon Photonics, which is expected to play a major role in the future of information and communication technology systems, especially datacenter interconnections, telecom infrastructures and consumer electronics interfaces. Silicon photonics has recently gained a tremendous amount of interest as a means to realize highly integrated optical devices and s ...
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Compact uLtrA-efficient mid-infRared photonIc sysTems based on low noise quantum cascade laser sources, wide band frequencY converters and near-infrared photodetectors (CLARITY)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

The mid-infrared spectral region is emerging as the wavelength region of preference for a number of applications including free space communications, absorption spectroscopy, chemical and biological sensing and LIDAR applications. For all the classes of different applications, the key elements of the mid-infrared system are the optical source and the detector.The optical source need is adequately ...
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AlGaN and InAlN based microwave components (AL-IN-WON)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

"This proposal is focused on the development of a new generation of wide band gap (WBG) GaN technology and devices for which strong impacts in term of performances, reliability and robustness are expected.AL-IN-WON will explore two main disrupting routes:- Next generation of WBG device based on new epi material (InAlN/GaN) for strong improvement in term of performances and reliability.- High effi ...
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POLYSYS: Direct 100G connectivity with optoelectronic POLYmer-InP integration for data center SYstems (POLYSYS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

Optical connectivity in data centers relies on 10Gb/s parallel optics that raise scalability and energy consumption issues. Efforts towards advanced modulation formats pose severe system complexity. The upgrade to 100 Gb/s to resolve the bandwidth bottleneck and increase the throughput of optical interconnect backplanes requires a disruptive yet straightforward solution. POLYSYS aims to provide th ...
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Integrated photonic transceivers at sub-terahertz wave range for ultra-wideband wireless communications (iPHOS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

This project targets the development of compact and low power transceivers that enable wireless data transfer at sub-terahertz carrier frequencies and their application to future high data-rate short-distance communication links. The interest of the topic relies in the fact that advances in semiconductor technology, favourable spectrum policy and demand for gigabit throughput capabilities have cre ...
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Drugs and Precursor Sensing by Complementing Low Cost Multiple Techniques (CUSTOM)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

A large number of techniques have been developed in the latest decades, which are able to screen and identify specific molecules for drug precursors detection even at very low concentration in lab testing.Nevertheless the objective to build up a system which proves to be easy to use, compact, able to provide screening over a large number of compounds and discriminate them with low false alarm (FA) ...
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High Quality European GaN-Wafer on SiC Substrates for Space Applications (EuSiC)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

The project „ High Quality European GaN-Wafer on SiC Substrates for Space Applications” (EuSiC) is aiming at establishing an independent, purely European sustainable supply chain for Gallium Nitride (GaN) based space technologies. The project will significantly reduce the dependence on critical technologies and capabilities from outside Europe for future space applications. An independent supply c ...
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Monolithic InP-based Dual Polarization QPSK Integrated Receiver and Transmitter for CoHerent 100-400Gb Ethernet (MIRTHE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

MIRTHE targets new multilevel-modulation all-monolithic integrated TX and RX Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) able to achieve 100-400 Gb/s aggregated speed on a single wavelength. This project is motivated by:- the reduction of cost and power consumption of 100Gb/s transmission equipment,- the need of future-proof component technologies for next generation terabit networks.Chips will be packa ...
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Advanced characterisation of ELEctronic properties of GAllium Nitride based devices (ELEGAN)

Start date: Jul 11, 2011, End date: Jul 10, 2013,

"The project is focused on the characterisation and modelling of a new generation of wide band gap (WBG) GaN technology and devices for which strong impacts in terms of performance, reliability and robustness are expected.GaN material, despite its extraordinary properties and the strong demand of some markets (see following paragraphs) is still at R&D stage, mainly for reasons linked to a poor und ...
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WIDE spectral band & WIDE dynamics multifunctional imaging SENSor Enabling safer car transportation (2WIDE_SENSE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

The White Paper on EU Transport Policy for 2010 states a key objective: 50% reduction of casualties due to road accidents by the end of 2010. Improvements on road safety are achievable increasing the EU market penetration of eSafety systems, currently limited by performance and cost of sensor technologies.According to ICT-2009.6.1, 2WIDE_SENSE addresses research challenges in the area of "Intellig ...
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COMPACT ULTRAFAST LASER SOURCES BASED ON NOVEL QUANTUM DOT STRUCTURES (FAST-DOT)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

FAST-DOT aims to implement a new range of ultrafast quantum-dot lasers for critical bio-medical applications. This project will develop portable, low-cost, reliable, highly efficient ultrashort pulse and ultra-broadband tuneable laser sources. The key technical innovation – quantum dots (QDs) - are based on novel semiconductor nanostructure clusters which demonstrate remarkable new photonic prope ...
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