Manassas, VA--BAE Systems hosted the opening of the CMOS foundry services it is offering as part of its partnership in OpSIS (Optoelectronic Systems Integration in Silicon), a multi-project wafer service for silicon photonics based at the University of Washington's new Institute for Photonic Integration (Seattle, WA). It is aimed at radically lowering the barriers to entry for building integrated photonic-electronic chips.
OpSIS aims to enable the next generation of engineers and scientists in developing cutting-edge silicon photonic systems by allowing the community to share the cost of fabricating complex chip-scale systems across many projects. The goal is to encourage the development of new applications and drive technology leadership in silicon photonics through the development of flexible, rapid, shared manufacturing infrastructure.
The Institute for Photonic Integration is led by Michael Hochberg, a co-founder of Luxtera. other featured speakers included Ian McDonald, Director of Space Products and Systems at BAE Systems; Mario Paniccia, Director of Photonics Technology Lab at Intel; and Gernot S. Pomrenke, Program Manager of the Optoelectronics Information Processing and Nanotechnology Programs for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
SOURCE: OpSIS
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