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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