Consortium
VLC PHOTONICS SL
A fabless company that specializes in photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and offers its services to various companies and researchers from different fields such as telecom/datacom, sensing, quantum, metrology, LIDAR, and biophotonics.
VLC Photonics contributes to HDLN with the design of photonic circuit building blocks and the implementation of a PDK. In addition, provides its wafer-level testing capabilities to the HDLN project to test devices for the generation of significant statistical data that will be used later to build component models that will be included in the PDK.
NOKIA NETWORKS FRANCE
Nokia creates technology that helps the world act together. As a trusted partner for critical networks, we are committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. We create value with intellectual property and long-term research, led by the award-winning Nokia Bell Labs.
NBL contributes to the project with industry-driven guidance while being at the forefront of the innovation. NBL contributes to subsystem specifications and assessments, as well as to system-level demonstration, thanks to the long-term expertise in coherent transmission systems, including fiber nonlinearities and digital signal processing.
KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is a public research university in Germany. It was created in 2009 by merging the University of Karlsruhe and the Karlsruhe Research Center. It is recognized for its excellence in engineering, natural sciences and computer science. It has distinguished alumni and professors, including Nobel Prize and Leibniz Prize winners.
Within HDLN, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) actively contributes to the development of the Process Design Kit (PDK). In particular, KIT works on modeling and design of high-speed electro-optic modulators based on the HDLN platform and characterizes the resulting devices. To show the full potential of the HDLN platform, KIT will further perform application demonstrations related to ultra-broadband signal processing and to high-speed communications. For the system level experiments, KIT will work on optical packaging of the modulator chips.
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE
The École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is a technical university specializing in science and technology, located in Lausanne, Switzerland. Founded in 1853 as the École spéciale de Lausanne, it has over 10,000 students of more than 116 nationalities and more than 5,900 employees, including 343 professors.
EPFL focuses on the nanofabrication process development for high-density LNOI PIC with ultra-low microwave and optical loss. It will develop a wafer-scale process based on deep-UV lithography that reflects high performance and scalability. This will enable the first realization of a process design kit for strip waveguides in LNOI platform.
LUXTELLIGENCE SA
An open-access pure-play foundry based on a patented proprietary fabrication technology for thin film lithium niobate (TFLN). We offer foundry services for multi-project wafers as well as custom runs.
LXT aim to transfer the technology from EPFL and commercialize the LNOI process based on dedicated wafer runs and a quarterly MPW offering based on the PDK developed in HDLN.