Photonic Integrated Circuit Development
We believe in the huge power of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technology to drive your innovation. Therefore, to enable you as product developers full access to the power of advanced photonic integrated circuits we have developed a specific product development approach.
PICs offer incredible advantages across diverse applications. But a Photonic Integrated Circuit alone offers little value unless it has the connectivity and function to support integration and performance in your system. Furthermore, as the users of PIC enabled technology become more diverse, effective photonic integrated circuit development depends on vital insights from expert end-users.
This is why we specialize in “thinking along” with you throughout the entire photonic integrated circuit development process. By doing so we co-develop whole-system solutions that address your most complex challenges.
To enable this approach, we bring our vertically integrated capability to ensure your custom photonic integrated circuit development integrates perfectly and delivers real value in your system. This means understanding system parameters and designing and assembling a module with all of the electronic, thermal and mechanical interfaces required to put it to work.
Our photonic integrated circuit development capabilities
PIC development phases
Our unique approach to PIC development consists of the three broad phases below. Irrespective of your experience with PIC solutions and no matter how far along with your development you are, we can support your product development success.
“Low-loss reference chips from LioniX have helped XVP establish reliable and repeatable solutions to integrated photonic alignment and packaging. Understanding sources of loss in the assembly and packaging of integrated photonic devices is challenging due to many technical factors. The ability to separate process- and chip- dependent contributions is essential in predicting the performance and reliability of both the packaging process and the final device. “
“Our collaboration with LioniX International allows Thales Research and Technology (TRT) to have access to innovative and low-loss silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits (PICs). The smart integration of PZT with silicon nitride PICs allows TRT to boost the development of our cold atoms-based inertial sensors.”
“I had a good experience working with LioniX, all the people I met are truly experts in their respective fields, always to the point, never making false promises, and clearly stating what is technically possible and what is not. Even though we did not continue the project, LioniX helped us to assess the relevance and get a clear reasoning behind why this technology does not commercially fit our business case and provided the future outlook on what needs to change to make it fit.”
“We were excited to access silicon nitride technology through the LioniX International MPW. Our application required really low-loss photonics in chip volumes appropriate to our early-stage technology. The design tools and building blocks gave us and our partners an efficient way of doing the functional design, and the packaging services saved us valuable time on our end.”
“As a developer of PIC-based products for third parties, Bright Photonics has seen a predictable and very good performance from LioniX MPW run PICs over the last years, which makes it an excellent platform for SiN prototyping for us.”