ERC-POC: LIQUORICE

Full Name: LIQuid-crystal enabled Universal Optical Reconfigurable Integrated Circuit Engineering

Duration: 1/7/2022-31/12/2023 (Finished)

Partners:

• Ghent University

Objective:

• In LIQUORICE, we will build an operational proof-of-concept generic programmable photonic processor that can eventually be used as a flexible off-the-shelf alternative to difficult-to-design application-specific photonic chips. With this prototype, we will implement a variety of commonly used optical test and measurement functions, targeting the market of scientific and educational lab instrumentation.

INTEC's Role:

• design the photonic circuits
• assemble the liquid crystal cell
• test the electrical control
• programming algorithms for measurement instruments
• validate the proof of concept

People involved

• Wim Bogaerts
• Lukas Van Iseghem
• K.P. Nagarjun

Research topics involved

• Liquid Crystals for nanophotonic applications
• Reconfigurable Photonic Circuits