Research project: Design, development and test of photonic integrated circuits
Photonic integrated circuits (PIC) are a disruptive technology that has been accelerating over the past few years driven by data and telecommunication applications such as the proliferation of massive data centres and 5G rollouts. Often compared to the revolutionary implementation of the electronic microprocessor, PICs are directly integrating discrete photonic, opto-electronic and electronic devices together to achieve greater performance, lower costs and are finding other use cases such as in medical, sensing and artificial intelligence applications.