Welcome to the website of the Photonics
Research Group at the Department of Information Technology (INTEC) of
Ghent University. This website provides extensive information about the
research activities of the group, its facilities, its publications etc.
The mission of the Photonics Research Group is
to work on innovative concepts for photonic components and in particular on
the compact integration of complex photonic functions. Most of the
activities focus on waveguide-based semiconductor components, such as laser
diodes, optical amplifiers, photonic crystal components in either III-V
semiconductors or Silicon-on-Insulator.
The infrastructure of the group includes
clean room facilities for in-house fabrication of components as well as a
variety of CAD-tools and measurement labs. The group is associated with the
micro-electronics research center IMEC in Leuven and uses the CMOS-oriented
research facilities of IMEC for research on Silicon photonics.
The Group has a
research staff of some
35 to 40 people with a mixture of electrical engineering and applied physics
profiles. The senior academic staff
consists of the professors Roel Baets, Peter Bienstman, Geert Morthier and
Dries Van Thourhout.
The group is involved in various national and
international projects. At this moment the group acts as
coordinator for the following international projects: the Network of
Excellence ePIXnet,
the Support Action PhotonFAB
and the research
projects HISTORIC
&
WaDiMos. Furthermore the group also coordinates the international
Erasmus Mundus Master of Science
in Photonics.
The Photonics Research Group is member of the
Plateau Photonics Innovation
Center of UGent.
Regularly the
Photonics
Research Group has
vacancies
available for research positions.
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