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CORNERSTONE 2

Project overview

The Universities of Southampton (SOU) and Glasgow (GLA) have established a new Silicon Photonics fabrication capability for the UK science base, through a project entitled CORNERSTONE. Following completion of the project, from December 2019 the CORNERSTONE fabrication capability will be self-sustaining. Based upon demand from the UK’s premier photonics researchers, this proposal seeks funding to extend the capability that is offered to UK researchers beyond the current Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) platforms, to include emerging Silicon Photonics platforms. These emerging platforms will enable a multitude of new applications either not suitable for the SOI platforms, or complementary to the SOI platforms. This proposal seeks support to bring the new platforms to a state of readiness to deliver the new functionality via a multi-project-wafer (MPW) mechanism to satisfy significantly increasing demand, and to encourage wider usage of world class equipment within the UK. This resource-only bid will facilitate access to a very significant inventory of equipment at the 2 host universities, including access to UK’s only deep-UV projection lithography capability.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Graham Reed FREng, FIET, FOSA, FSPIE, FEOS

Head of School
Connect with Graham

Email: G.Reed@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor David Thomson

Professorial Fellow-Research
Connect with David

Email: D.Thomson@soton.ac.uk

Professor Frederic Gardes PhD

Professor
Connect with Frederic

Email: fg5v@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Professor Harold Chong

Professor of Electronic Engineering
Connect with Harold

Email: hmhc@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Professor Goran Mashanovich

Personal Chair
Research interests
  • Silicon Photonics
  • Photonics Integrated Circuits
  • Sensors
Connect with Goran

Email: G.Mashanovich@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Universal silicon ring resonator for error free transmission links
Junbo Zhu, Weiwei Zhang, Ke Li, Bharat Pant, Martin Ebert, Xingzhao Yan, Mehdi Banakar, Dehn T. Tran, Callum G. Littlejohns, Fuwan Gan, Graham Reed & David J. Thomson, 2024, Photonics Research, 12(2), 701-711
DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.509237
Type: article
A 100-Gb/s PAM4 optical transmitter in a 3-D-integrated SiPh-CMOS platform using segmented MOSCAP modulators
Arian Hashemi Talkhooncheh, Weiwei Zhang, Minwo Wang, David Thomson, Martin Ebert, Ke Li, Graham Reed & Azita Ememi, 2022, IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, 58(1)
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2022.3210906
Type: article
Beyond 100Gb/s from a single silicon MZI modulator
Graham T. Reed, Shenghao Liu, David J. Thomson, Weiwei Zhang, Fanfan Meng, Xingzhao Yan, Callum G. Littlejohns, Han Du, Wei Cao, Mehdi Banakar, Martin Ebert, Vadivukkarasi Jeyaselvan, Dehn Tran, Periklis Petropoulos & Li Ke, 2022
DOI: 10.1364/cleo_si.2022.sm5g.1
Type: bookChapter
Single-shot wavelength meter on a photonic chip for absolute distance measurement using frequency scanning interferometry
C.R. Coggrave, P.D. Ruiz, C.A. Pallikarakis, J.M. Huntley, H. Du, M. Banakar, X. Yan, D.T. Tran & C.G. Littlejohns, 2022
DOI: 10.1117/12.2626785
Type: conference
High-bandwidth InGaAs photodetectors heterogeneously integrated on silicon waveguides using optofluidic assembly
Colin Mitchell, Ali Z. Khokhar, Graham Reed, James S. Wilkinson, Youngho Jung, Sunghyun Bae, Kyungmok Kwon, Yun C. Chung & Kyoungsik Yu, 2021, Laser & Photonics Reviews
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.202100306
Type: article