EuroPIC                                                                                              

EuroPIC – European manufacturing platform for Photonics Integrated Circuits

: Contractor
EU (FP7.Collaborative Project Targeted to SMEs)

: Total project investment
€ 3.75M

: Project duration
36 months

: Consortium
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e)
Willow Photonics Ltd
Bookham Technology plc
PhoeniX BV
The Centre for Integrated Photonics Ltd
BB Photonics
Alcatel-Thales III-V Lab
Genexis
Photon Design Ltd
Filarete
University of Cambridge
FibreSensing
Baas B.V.
Fraunhofer Inst. for Telecommunications Heinrich Hertz Institute
Philips Electronics Nederland B.V.
VanderHoek Photonics
EPIC

: Description
The objective of EuroPIC is no less than to effect a fundamental change in the way applications based on photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are designed and manufactured in Europe. The key development is to facilitate access by small companies (SMEs) to development and manufacturing of photonic Microsystems in the form of advanced but very cost effective PICs. EuroPIC can bring forth a new production paradigm to forge a sustainable business sector with the potential for very significant future growth. This will be done by developing a generic technology that is capable of realising complex PICs from a small set of basic building blocks.

: Status
Started in Q3 2009