Advantages of Photonic Integration

When integrating an optical system (or part of it) into a chip, you can obtain the following benefits:

Miniaturization: less volume and weight.
Higher thermal and mechanical stability.
Less power consumption.
Functional scalability, reduced complexity.
Increased volume manufacturing, reliability and yield.
Lower cost: reduced Bill-of-Materials and labour, assembly and test.

VLC Photonics Optical integration project

When applying integration to your custom optical system, we will be developing what is called an Application-Specific Photonic Integrated Circuit (ASPIC).

ASPIC Design

Photonic chip design does not start with technology but is firstly based on customer specifications. Specifications on the function that the ASPIC should deliver into your product. Once these requirements are clear, the next step is to evaluate the most appropriate integration technology that could deliver the required functionality. Any optical system is composed of multiple building blocks, and it is here that technology comes into play: what specific material platform can be best used to implement the required components?

In this aspect VLC Photonics is technology independent, we will realize your ASPIC in the best suitable technology according to your needs. Therefore, we are not limited to a monolithical system with a single base material, being able to design in the main current material platforms: III-V compounds and Silicon Photonics (InP, SOI, SiO₂, Si₃N₄, etc.). From a customer point-of-view, all this is transparent to your application.

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