Subventions et des contributions :

Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2018-2019).

The nature of the work is to conduct a feasibility study to design and fabricate a waveguide avalanchex000D
photodiode on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform. Silicon photonic devices built on silicon-on-insulatorx000D
wafer are micron scale, high refractive index contrast photonic devices truly integrable with electronic controlx000D
circuits on a very-large-scale integration (VLSI) chip. Such devices are promised to prevail in the opticalx000D
communication industry for their low power consumption, small feature size, and low cost upon massx000D
production. ArtIC, a leading company in photonic integrated circuits (PIC), is planning to develop ax000D
monolithically integrated wavelength selectable receiver based on SOI platform for next generationx000D
wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) passive optical network (NG-PON2) applications. Waveguide basedx000D
Avalanche Photo-Detector (APD) is one of the key components for such device. Our group, with many years ofx000D
silicon photonics device design and fabrication experiences, will collaborate with the company to develop thisx000D
product. Through this project, our group will design and fabricate the waveguide APD using facilities availablex000D
at PI's lab, University of Victoria and CMC microsystems. At the end of the project, we anticipate the APDx000D
will be fully understood through numerical modelling and fabricated with fabrication related challengesx000D
identified. In a continued collaboration through a long term project such as NSERC collaborative research andx000D
development (CRD), the waveguide APD is expected to be developed, characterized experimentally andx000D
verified to meet the requirement specified by ITU-G.980.2 for NG-PON2 market. The activity in this project isx000D
highly related to the endeavor of the company to building SOI portfolio. The design/fabrication process of thex000D
waveguide APD will be directly integrated to their transceiver design product line. This positions the companyx000D
as well as Canadian high tech industry at the frontlines of PON market whose value is predicted to be $43x000D
billion by 2025. The highly qualified personnels (HQPs) through this project training well suits the demand ofx000D
Canadian industry.