What is MicroPhotonics?
MicroPhotonics is an emerging scientific, technological, industrial and multidisciplinary field that encompasses classical photonics and recent advances in electro-optical materials, deep sub-micron Integrated Opto-VLSI Chip fabrication processes, high speed VCSEL array fabrication, broadband photoreceiver array fabrication, optical substrates, Computer Aided Design and Analysis (CADA), VLSI testing, and even more, to transmit, manipulate, and detect photons (light waves and energy particles) at a microscopic level using software engineering. MicroPhotonics has the potential to improve information systems and image-processing technologies vastly. Speed, immunity to interference, increased bandwidth, parallel information processing abilities and enhanced data-storage capacity are some of the advantages of working with light.
COMPS Facilities
COMPS has had access to the following international partner fabrication facilities: VLSI chip fabrication, TIMA/CMP - France, Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser array fabrication, Ulm University – Germany, Liquid Crystal Deposition, Cambridge University – UK, COMPS also has access to NNTTF’sAgilent 93000 SOC VLSI tester and ECU’s Beaglehole Picometer Elliposometer.
Over the last year, COMPS has built new collaboration with international organisations and now has access to the following fabrication facilities: Laser and photodiode array fabrication, GIST Korea, RF magnetron sputtering, GIST Korea, VLSI chip fabrication, Inter-University Semiconductor Research Centre, Seoul National University, Korea, Microfabrication Laboratory, the Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, The Mobile Computing, Communications and Networking Research Laboratory, Glamorgan University, Wales-UK.
In addition to the above-mentioned facilities, COMPS Laboratories have the following equipment (pdf):
