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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

Nonlinear properties of laser-processed polycrystalline silicon waveguides for integrated photonics
Ozan Aktaş,
Stuart James MacFarquhar,
Swe Oo,
Antulio Tarazona,
Harold Chong,
& Anna Peacock
, 2020 , Optics Express , 28 (20) , 29192--29201
DOI: 10.1364/OE.400536
Type: article
Electrically erasable optical I/O for wafer scale testing of silicon photonic integrated circuits
Xingshi Yu,
Xia Chen,
Milan Milošević,
Xingzhao Yan,
Shinichi Saito,
& Graham Reed
, 2020 , IEEE Photonics Journal , 12 (5)
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2020.3027799
Type: review
25 Gbit/s silicon based modulators for the 2 µm wavelength band
Wei Cao,
M. Nedeljković,
Shenghao Liu,
C.G. Littlejohns,
D.J. Thomson,
F. Gardes,
Zhengqi Ren,
Ke Li,
G.T. Reed,
& G.Z. Mashanovich
, 2020
DOI: 10.1364/OFC.2020.M2B.4
Type: conference
Perspective on thin film waveguides for on-chip mid-infrared spectroscopy of liquid biochemical analytes
Vinita Mittal,
Goran Mashanovich,
& James S. Wilkinson
, 2020 , Analytical Chemistry , 92 (16) , 10891--10901
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c01296
Type: article
Electronic-photonic convergence for silicon photonics transmitters beyond 100 Gbps on-off keying
Ke Li,
Shenghao Liu,
David Thomson,
Weiwei Zhang,
Xingzhao Yan,
Fanfan Meng,
Callum Littlejohns,
Han Du,
Mehdi Banakar,
Martin Ebert,
Wei Cao,
Bigeng Chen,
Denh Tran,
Abdul Shakoor,
Periklis Petropoulos,
& Graham Reed
, 2020 , Optica , 7 (11) , 1514--1516
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.411122
Type: article