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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 researcher

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

Head of School
Other researchers

Professor David Thomson

Professorial Fellow-Research

Professor Frederic Gardes PhD

Professor

Professor Harold Chong

Professor of Electronic Engineering

Professor Goran Mashanovich

Personal Chair

Research interests

  • Silicon Photonics
  • Photonics Integrated Circuits
  • Sensors

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Photonic Systems, Circuits and Sensors Group

Our group’s research in photonics is helping the development of critical global technologies.

Silicon Photonics

The group works at the forefront of all aspects of silicon photonics. Our work ranges from fundamental study of devices and circuits to close collaboration with industry.

Sustainable Electronic Technologies

We explore how to improve renewable energy sources and create more efficient electronic device technology to benefit the environment.

Research outputs

Broadband 2 x 2 multimode interference coupler for mid-infrared wavelengths
Callum Stirling,
Robert Halir,
Alejandro Sánchez-Postigo,
Zhibo Qu,
Jamie Dean Reynolds,
Jordi Soler-Penadés,
Ganapathy Senthil Murugan,
Alejandro Ortega-Moñux,
Gonzalo Wangüemert-Pérez,
Íñigo Molina-Fernández,
Goran Mashanovich,
& Miloš Nedeljković
, 2021 , Optics Letters , 46 (21) , 5300--5303
DOI: 10.1364/OL.439985
Type: article
Four-wave mixing-based wavelength conversion and parametric amplification in submicron silicon core fibers
Dong Wu,
Li Shen,
Haonan Ren,
Meng Huang,
Cosimo Lacava,
Joseph Campling,
Shiyu Sun,
Thomas W. Hawkins,
Ursula J. Gibson,
Periklis Petropoulos,
John Ballato,
& Anna C. Peacock
, 2021 , IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics , 27 (2)
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2020.3022100
Type: article
Deep learning enabled design of complex transmission matrices for universal optical components
Nicholas J. Dinsdale,
Peter R. Wiecha,
Matthew Delaney,
Jamie Reynolds,
Martin Ebert,
Ioannis Zeimpekis,
David J. Thomson,
Graham T. Reed,
Philippe Lalanne,
Kevin Vynck,
& Otto L. Muskens
, 2021 , ACS Photonics , 8 (1) , 283--295
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c01481
Type: article
High-speed silicon Michelson interferometer modulator and streamlined IMDD PAM-4 transmission of Mach-Zehnder modulators for the 2 μm wavelength band
Wei Cao,
Shenghao Liu,
Callum G. Littlejohns,
David J. Thomson,
Miloš Nedeljković,
Weiwei Zhang,
Ke Li,
Mehdi Banakar,
Ying Tran,
Xingzhao Yan,
Han Du,
Zhengqi Ren,
Frederic Gardes,
Graham T. Reed,
& Goran Z. Mashanovich
, 2021 , Optics Express , 29 (10) , 14438--14451
DOI: 10.1364/OE.418285
Type: article
10 nm SiO2 TM slot mode in laterally mismatched asymmetric fin-waveguides
James J. Byers,
Kapil Debnath,
Hideo Arimoto,
Muhammad K. Husain,
Moise Sotto,
Joseph, William Hillier,
Kian Shen Kiang,
David Thomson,
Graham T. Reed,
Martin Charlton,
& Shinichi Saito
, 2021 , Frontiers in Physics , 9 , 237
DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2021.659585
Type: article