Paper 14100-63
Paper 14100-63
MIRPIC PDK – bridging design and fabrication of mid-IR photonic integrated circuits
14 April 2026 • 18:10 - 20:00 CEST | Galerie Erasme (Niveau/Level 0)
Abstract
In this work, we present and discuss a new process design kit (PDK) for the mid-infrared photonic integration platform – MIRPIC. It is based on Ge-on-Si technology and covers the spectral range from 3.0 µm to 8.0 µm. The measured propagation loss of passive waveguides, a key figure of merit for any passive photonic platform, is below 2.5 dB/cm. The library of basic and composite building blocks of the developed PDK includes passive waveguides, tapers, bends, multimode interference (MMI) splitters and couplers, arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) wavelength (de)multiplexers, Bragg gratings, and grating couplers.
Acknowledgments: This work received support from the National Center for Research and Development through projects MIRPIC (TECHMATSTRATEG-III/0026/2019-00), HyperPIC (FENG.02.10-IP.01-0005/23, IPCEI ME/CT) and FSOC (FENG.01.01-IP.01-A0MR/24-00), and from the EU Horizon Europe under GA #101213727, Chips Joint Undertaking.
Presenter
Warsaw Univ. of Technology (Poland), VIGO Photonics S.A. (Poland), LightHouse sp. z o.o. (Poland)
He received his Ph.D. in 2014 from Eindhoven University of Technology through a joint program with Warsaw University of Technology (WUT). Since 2012, he has served as an assistant professor at WUT. In 2021 he joined VIGO Photonics, where he holds the position of a PIC Design and Development Expert. He is also a member of the board of LightHouse, a WUT spin-off founded in 2022. His research focuses on the modeling, design, and characterization of application-specific photonic integrated circuits (ASPICs) for optical communications, sensor networks, optical gyroscopes, as well as on the development of new photonic integration platforms.