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ICT: Boom

Full Name: Terabit-on-chip:integrated photonic routers

Duration: 1/6/2008-30/5/2011 (Finished)

Partners:

Project leader: ICCS/NTUA (Greece)

Objective:

BOOM is an integration project that aims to pursue the systematic advancement of Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) integration technology to develop compact, cost-effective and power efficient silicon photonic components that enable photonic Tb/s capacity systems for current and new generation high speed broadband core networks. BOOM develops fabrication techniques as well as flip-chip bonding and die-to-wafer integration methods to fabricate and mount the complete family of III-V components on SOI. As such the BOOM SOI optical board technology will be able to blend the cost-effectiveness and integration potential of silicon with the high bandwidth and processing power of III-V material and provide a new generation of functional and miniaturized photonic components including:
(a) a single 160 Gb/s SOI Wavelength Converter (WC) and a quadruple array of 160 Gb/s WCs with a record chip throughput of 640 Gb/s on a size 20x5 mm2
(b) a compact, eight channel, ultra dense WDM InAlAs-InGaAs photoreceiver with record high responsivity
(c) a dual SOI EML transmitter together with its electronic drivers on a single chip.
In addition, BOOM invests in the development of improved CMOS compatible waveguide technologies to fabricate miniaturized, low loss and fully reconfigurable wavelength routing cross-connects based on two dimensional grids of serially interconnected micro-ring resonators. BOOM will perform system level integration of all the components to assemble the first prototype rack-mount, ultra-high capacity router based on silicon photonics that will require minimum board space and power consumption and achieve a total throughput of 640 Gb/s.

INTEC's Role:

Realize UHDWDM receiver

Project Web site: http://www.ict-boom.eu

People involved

Research topics involved

Die-to-wafer bonding technology (2003-2012)

Publications in the framework of this project (9)

International Journals

P. De Heyn, D. Vermeulen, D. Van Thourhout, G. Roelkens, Silicon-on-insulator all-pass microring resonator using a polarization rotating coupling section, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, doi:10.1109/lpt.2012.2198460 (2012) .
C. Stamatiadis, K. Vyrsokinos, L. Stampoulidis, I. Lazarou, A. Maziotis, J. Bolten, M. Karl, T. Wahlbrink, P. De Heyn, Z. Sheng, D. Van Thourhout, H. Avramopoulos, Silicon-on-Insulator Nanowire Resonators for Compact and Ultra-high speed All-optical Wavelength Converters, Journal of Lightwave Technology, doi:10.1109/jlt.2011.2164781 (2011) .
L. Liu, G. Roelkens, J. Van Campenhout, J. Brouckaert, D. Van Thourhout, R. Baets, III-V/silicon-on-insulator nanophotonic cavities for optical network-on-chip, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (invited), 10, p.1461-1472 doi:10.1166/jnn.2010.2032 (2010) .

International Conferences

P. De Heyn, S. Verstuyft, S. Keyvaninia, A. Trita, D. Van Thourhout, Tunable 4-Channel Ultra-Dense WDM Demultiplexer with III-V Photodiodes Integrated on Silicon-on-Insulator, Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) , China, p.1-3 doi:10.1364/acp.2012.ath2b.1 (2012) .
P. De Heyn, D. Vermeulen, T. Van Vaerenbergh, B. Kuyken, D. Van Thourhout, Ultra-high Q and finesse all-pass microring resonators on Silicon-on-Insulator using rib waveguides, 16th European Conference on Integrated Optics and technical exhibition, Spain, p.paper 195 (2012) .
W. Bogaerts, S. Selvaraja, H. Yu, T. Spuesens, P. Mechet, S. Stankovic, S. Keyvaninia, J. Van Campenhout, P. Absil, G. Roelkens, D. Van Thourhout, R. Baets, A Silicon Photonics Platform with Heterogeneous III-V Integration, Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nano-Photonics (IPR) (invited), Canada, p.IWC2 doi:10.1364/iprsn.2011.iwc2 (2011) .
C. Stamatiadis, L. Stampoulidis, K. Vyrsokinos, I. Lazarou, L.Zimmermann, K.Voigt, L. Moerl, J. Kreissl, B. Sedighi, Z. Sheng, P. De Heyn, D. Van Thourhout, M. Karl, T. Wahlbrink, J. Bolten, A. Leinse, R, Heidemann, F. Gomez-Agis, H.J.S Dorren, A. Pagano, E. Riccardi, H. Avramopoulos, The ICT-BOOM project: Photonic Routing on a Silicon-On-Insulator Hybrid Platform, 15th Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM) (invited), Italy, (2011) .
P. De Heyn, B. Kuyken, D. Vermeulen, W. Bogaerts, D. Van Thourhout, High-performance low-loss silicon-on-insulator microring resonators using TM-polarized light, The Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) and The National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC) 2011, , United States, p.paper OThV2 (3 pages) doi:10.1364/ofc.2011.othv2 (2011) .
P. De Heyn, B. Kuyken, D. Vermeulen, W. Bogaerts, D. Van Thourhout, Improved intrinsic Q of Silicon-on-Insulator microring resonators using TM-polarized light, Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Benelux Chapter, Netherlands, p.197-200 (2010) .