Ferroelectric PHOtonics ENablIng novel functionalities and enhanced performance neXt generation PICs (PHOENIX)

铁电光子学实现了下一代 PIC 的新颖功能和增强性能 (PHOENIX)

• 批准号: 10040112
• 金额: $ 96.84万
• 依托单位: OPTALYSYS LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: EU-Funded
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10040112
• 关键词: Ferroelectric; PHOtonics; ENablIng; novel; functionalities

In PHOENIX, we create the next generation of compact photonic integrated circuits (PIC) offering a continuous and efficient control over optical signals. A barium titanate (BTO) on silicon nitride (SiN) platform will be optimized to enable novel functionalities and produce enhanced PICs. The novel functionalities stem from a combination of materials having a metal-insulator transition with epitaxial ferroelectrics. Vanadium oxides (VOx) deliver a maximum contrast in absorption while Barium Titanate (BTO) offers an efficient and programmable control of the phase of an optical signal through Pockels and photorefractive effects. The developed technologies will be demonstrated in four uses cases in high-impact emerging applications: 1) fully homomorphic encryption, 2) 5G infrastructure, 3) inference of deep neural networks and 4) training of deep neural networks. The project has four main objectives: a) to provide novel photonic technologies with enhanced functionalities thanks to the integration of VOx and BTO, b) to provide a BTO/SiN waveguide platform for subsequent manufacturing of PICs and an upgraded version of such a platform integrating VOx with the potential to improve their performance and scalability, c) to build up the demonstrators, and d) to advance in the understanding, realization and upscaling of high-quality oxide thin-films by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) on large area. The validation of the developed technology will be completed with an extrapolation to benchmark against representative existing systems and a roadmap for photonic-electronic integration. The project will perform a market analysis and a techno-economic evaluation in order to define business models and exploitation plans that ensure the sustainability of the PHOENIX platform to reduce innovation-to market-time and R&I costs for disruptive high-tech SMEs and maximize the impact of the 4 user cases demonstrators

在凤凰城，我们创建了下一代紧凑的光子集成电路（PIC），从而提供对光学信号的连续有效控制。硝酸硅（SIN）平台上的钛酸钡（BTO）将被优化，以实现新的功能并产生增强的图片。新型功能源于具有外延铁电跃迁具有金属 - 绝缘体过渡的材料的组合。钒氧化物（Vox）在吸收中产生最大对比度，而钛酸钡（BTO）通过pockels和PhotoRefractive效应提供了对光学信号相的有效且可编程的控制。在高影响力的新兴应用中，将在四种情况下证明开发的技术：1）完全同构加密，2）5G基础设施，3）对深神经网络的推断和4）对深神经网络的培训。该项目具有四个主要目标：a）通过Vox和BTO的整合，提供具有增强功能的新型光子技术，b）提供一个BTO/SIN波导平台，以随后的制造图片制造和升级的该平台的升级版本，以整合Vox，以使其具有绩效和扩展性的潜力，以提高其范围，以提高竞争者的范围，并促进了竞选活动的范围。大面积的分子束外延（MBE）的薄膜。开发技术的验证将通过推断，以针对代表性现有系统进行基准和光电 - 电子集成的路线图。该项目将进行市场分析和技术经济评估，以定义业务模型和剥削计划，以确保凤凰平台的可持续性减少创新到市场时间和R＆I的R＆I成本，以造成颠覆性的高科技中小企业的影响，并最大程度地提高4个用户案例示威者的影响