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Ir. Tom Vanackere  (Doctoral Researcher)

This person is working in this group since 2019.
Affiliation: Ghent University - IMEC
Department of Information Technology
Address: Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 126
9052 Ghent
Belgium
Office: iGent, Office 130.008
E-mail: tom.vanackere@ugent.be
ORCID: 0000-0003-4692-9467
LinkedIn: tom-vanackere-375a501a0
Promotors: Stephane Clemmen and Bart Kuyken
TomVanackere
Tom Vanackere received his BSc and MSc in Engineering physics from Ghent University (Belgium) in 2017 and 2019 respectively. Shortly after he started working on his PhD in the Photonics research group. The focus of his research is the heterogeneous integration of Lithium Niobate on Silicon and Silicon nitride through micro-transfer printing. The main goal of this research is the realization of high-speed (100 GHz), efficient electro-optic modulators for optical IO and quantum applications. His research interests also include integrated nonlinear and quantum optics and high-speed electronics for photonics.

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Publications (25)

    International Journals

  1. Y. Tan, Shenpu Niu, M. Billet, Nish Singh, M. Niels, T. Vanackere, Joris Van Kerrebrouck, G. Roelkens, B. Kuyken, D. Van Thourhout, Micro-transfer-printed Thin film lithium niobate (TFLN)-on- Silicon Ring Modulator, accepted for publication in ACS Photonics,  (to be published).
  2. G. Roelkens, J. Zhang, L. Bogaert, E. Soltanian, M. Billet, A. Uzun, B. Pan, Y. Liu, E. Delli, D. Wang, V. Bonito Oliva, L.Thi Ngoc Tran, X. Guo, H. Li, S. Qin, K. Akritidis, Y. Chen, Y. Xue, M. Niels, D. Maes, M. Kiewiet, T. Reep, T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, I. Luntadila Lufungula, J. De Witte, L. Reis, S. Poelman, Y. Tan, H. Deng, W. Bogaerts, G. Morthier, D. Van Thourhout, B. Kuyken, Present and future of micro-transfer printing for heterogeneous photonic integrated circuits, Applied Physics Letters - Photonics (invited), doi:10.1063/5.0181099 (2024)  Download this Publication (1.4MB).
  3. T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, L. Bogaert, M. Billet, S. Poelman, S. Cuyvers, J. Van Kerrebrouck, A. Moerman, O. Caytan, N. Singh, S. Lemey, G. Torfs, P. Ossieur, G. Roelkens, S. Clemmen, B. Kuyken, Heterogeneous integration of a High-Speed Lithium Niobate Modulator on Silicon Nitride using Micro-Transfer Printing, APL Photonics, 8, p.paper 086102 (7 pages) doi:10.1063/5.0150878 (2023)  Download this Publication (7.1MB).
  4. T. Vandekerckhove, T. Vanackere, J. De Witte, S. Cuyvers, L.N Reis, M. Billet, G. Roelkens, S. Clemmen, B. Kuyken, Reliable micro-transfer printing method for heterogeneous integration of lithium niobate and semiconductor thin films, Optical Materials Express, doi:10.1364/OME.494038 (2023)  Download this Publication (8MB).
  5. G. Roelkens, J. Zhang, L. Bogaert, M. Billet, D. Wang, B. Pan, C.J. Krückel, E. Soltanian, D. Maes, T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, S. Cuyvers, J. De Witte, I. Luntadila Lufungula, X. Guo, H. Li, S. Qin, G. Muliuk, S. Uvin, B. Haq, C. Op de Beeck, J. Goyvaerts, G. Lepage, P. Verheyen, J. Van Campenhout, G. Morthier, B. Kuyken, D. Van Thourhout, R. Baets, Micro-transfer printing for heterogeneous Si photonic integrated circuits, IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (invited), 29(3), p.8200414 doi:10.1109/JSTQE.2022.3222686 (2022)  Download this Publication (6.4MB).
  6. K.A. Reynkens, S. Clemmen, H. Zhao, A. Raza, T. Vanackere, A. Stassen, M. Van Daele , J. Dendooven, R. Baets, Gold-induced photothermal background in on-chip surface enhanced stimulated Raman spectroscopy, Optics Letters, 29(6), p.8283-8295 doi:10.1364/OL.418527 (2021)  Download this Publication (1.3MB).
      International Conferences

    1. M. Niels, M. Billet, T. Vandekerckhove, T. Vanackere, Y. Tan, G. Roelkens, B. Kuyken, Micro-Transfer Printing for cm-scale Heterogeneous Integration of Lithium Niobate, accepted for publication in Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Society Benelux Chapter,  (to be published).
    2. J. De Witte, Z. Liu, A. Shadmani, T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, G. Roelkens, C. Pedersen, L. Midolo, D. Van Thourhout, B. Kuyken, SiN/ GaAs quantum photonic platform with efficient fiber-coupling, Optica Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition 2024, Netherlands, p.paper QW3A.15 (2 pages) doi:10.1364/QUANTUM.2024.QW3A.15 (2024)  Download this Publication (482KB).
    3. T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, M. Billet, Y. Tan, M. Niels, T. Zhai, A. Parracino, V. Bonito-Oliva, J. Withouck, G. Roelkens, D. Van Thourhout, S. Clemmen, B. Kuyken, Towards scalable heterogeneous integration of thin-film lithium niobate on silicon photonics using microtransfer printing, SPIE Photonics Europe (invited), 13012, France, doi:10.1117/12.3026043 (2024)  Download this Publication (1.7MB).
    4. J. De Witte, Z. Liu, A. Shadmani, T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, G. Roelkens, C. Pedersen, L. Midolo, D. Van Thourhout, B. Kuyken, Micro-transfer printing for the heterogeneous integration of single-photon sources on SiN, Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Society Benelux Chapter, (2024)  Download this Publication (651KB).
    5. T. Vandekerckhove, R. Van Assche, I. Tanghe, M. Niels, S. Poelman, T. Vanackere, M. Billet, S. Clemmen, B. Kuyken, Highly-Selective Etching of Micro-Transfer-Pritned Thin-Film Lithium Niobate for Low Coupling Losses, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, United States, p.paper STh3F.6 (2 pages) (2024)  Download this Publication (1.7MB).
    6. T. Vandekerckhove, T. Vanackere, J. De Witte, G. Roelkens, S. Clemmen, B. Kuyken, Deterministic Phase-Matching of Micro-Transfer-Printed Periodically-Poled Lithium Niobate Waveguides, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, United States, p.paper STh3F.5 (2 pages) (2024)  Download this Publication (1.6MB).
    7. M. Niels, T. Vanackere, S. Poelman, T. Vandekerckhove, G. Roelkens, M. Billet, B. Kuyken, Characterisation of Micro-Transfer Printed cm-scale Lithium Niobate on a Silicon Nitride platform, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim, South Korea, (2023)  Download this Publication (134KB).
    8. M. Niels, M. Billet, T. Vandekerckhove, T. Vanackere, G. Roelkens, B. Kuyken, Scalable cm-scale Micro-Transfer Printing for Heterogeneous Integration of Lithium Niobate, accepted for publication in Frontiers in Optics, United States,  (to be published).
    9. Y. Tan, M. Niels, M. Billet, T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, G. Roelkens, B. Kuyken, D. Van Thourhout, Heterogeneously Integrated Si-LN Microring Modulator based on Transfer-printing method, European Conference on Optical Communication, 2023, United Kingdom, p.Tu.C.2.3 (3 pages) (2023)  Download this Publication (476KB).
    10. P. Ossieur, B. Moeneclaey, J. Lambrecht, J. Craninckx, E. Martens, J. Van Driessche, J. Declerq, S. Niu, T. Pannier, Y. Gu, J. Zhang, T. Vanackere, D. Maes, R. Oldenbeuving, X. Zhang, J. Van Campenhout, P. Absil, B. Kuyken, X. Yin, G. Torfs, G. Roelkens, J. Bauwelinck, High speed transceivers beyond 1.6Tb/s for data center networks, European Conference on Optical Communication (invited), United Kingdom, (2023)  Download this Publication (2.2MB).
    11. M. Billet, T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, M. Niels, L.N Reis, D. Maes, M. Kiewiet, K. Akritidis, S. Cuyvers, S. Poelman, T. Reep, V. Bonito Oliva, F. Leo, G. Roelkens, B. Kuyken, Filling the gap of silicon nitride photonic platform functionalities using micro-transfer printing, (invited) publication in Advanced Photonics Congress, South Korea,  (to be published)  Download this Publication (154KB).
    12. J. Zhang, L. Bogaert, M. Billet, D. Wang, B. Pan, S. Qin, E. Soltanian, S. Cuyvers, D. Maes, T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, S. Poelman, M. Kiewiet, I. Luntadila Lufungula, X. Guo, H. Li, J. De Witte, G. Lepage, P. Verheyen, J. Van Campenhout, B. Kuyken, G. Morthier, D. Van Thourhout, R. Baets, G. Roelkens, Photonic integrated circuits realized using micro-transfer printing, PIERS (invited), (2023).
    13. T. Vandekerckhove, T. Vanackere, J. De Witte, S. Cuyvers, L.N Reis, M. Billet, G. Roelkens, S. Clemmen, B. Kuyken, Pillar-Based High-Yield Heterogeneous Integration of Lithium Niobate and Gallium Phosphide Thin Films, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, United States, p.paper STh4O.6 (2 pages) doi:10.1364/CLEO_SI.2023.STh4O.6 (2023)  Download this Publication (1.7MB).
    14. T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, L. Bogaert, M. Billet, S. Poelman, S. Cuyvers, Joris Van Kerrebrouck, Arno Moerman, Olivier Caytan, Sam Lemey, Guy Torfs, G. Roelkens, S. Clemmen, B. Kuyken, High-Speed Lithium Niobate Modulator on Silicon Nitride using Micro-Transfer Printing, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, United States, p.paper STh1R.1 (2 pages) doi:10.1364/CLEO_SI.2023.STh1R.1 (2023)  Download this Publication (367KB).
    15. T. Vandekerckhove, T. Vanackere, J. De Witte, I. Luntadila Lufungula, E. Vissers, G. Roelkens, S. Clemmen, B. Kuyken, High-Efficiency Second Harmonic Generation in Heterogeneously-Integrated Periodically-Poled Lithium Niobate on Silicon Nitride, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, Germany, (2023)  Download this Publication (776KB).
    16. M. Billet, L.N Reis, T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, F. Leo, G. Roelkens, B. Kuyken, Heterogeneous integration on silicon nitride for integrated photonics: lasers and nonlinear materials., JNTE 2022 (invited), France, (2022)  Download this Publication (147KB).
    17. J. De Witte, A. Shadmani, T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, P. Lodahl, G. Roelkens, L. Midolo, B. Kuyken, D. Van Thourhout, Towards the heterogeneous integration of single-photon sources on SiN using micro-transfer printing, International Conference on Integrated Quantum Photonics, (2022)  Download this Publication (245KB).
    18. S. Cuyvers, T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, S. Poelman, C. Op de Beeck, J. De Witte, A. Hermans, K. Van Gasse, N. Picque, D. Van Thourhout, G. Roelkens, S. Clemmen, B. Kuyken, High-Yield Heterogeneous Integration of Silicon and Lithium Niobate Thin Films, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, United States, (2022)  Download this Publication (240KB).
    19. T. Vanackere, M. Billet, C. Op de Beeck, S. Poelman, G. Roelkens, S. Clemmen, B. Kuyken, Micro-Transfer Printing of Lithium Niobate on Silicon Nitride, European Conference on Optical Communication, Belgium, doi:10.1109/ECOC48923.2020.9333415 (2020)  Download this Publication (1.2MB).
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