PANEL SESSION

State-of-the-art and future of Hybrid Silicon Photonic Foundries

Recently Silicon Photonic foundries have been incorporating InP building blocks in their PDKs. Industrial efforts from Tower Semiconductor, SCINTIL photonics, Skorpios, and Global Foundries should be highlighted. In parallel, we have seen advances in new on-chip modulators- plus the new materials to make them. For example, Lithium Niobite from Hyperlight or Ori Chip, Polymer-based modulators from Lightwave Logic, NLM Photonics or Sylorix, plasmonics from Polariton or developments Lumiphase made with BTO materials. The list of companies is increasing fast.

MODERATOR

Jose Pozo

OPTICA

Jose Pozo is member of the Executive Board of Optica (former OSA) as the Chief Technology Officer, since 1 March 2022. Originally from Spain, Jose Pozo has spent more than 25 years working in photonics. He earned a PhD in quantum physics from the University of Bristol, UK, and an M.Sc. and B.Eng. in telecom engineering from UPNA, Spain / VUB, Belgium. Prior to joining EPIC in 2015 as CTO, Jose was a Senior Photonics Technology Consultant with PNO Consultants, with some of the main accounts such as CERN, Thales or TE Connectivity. He has worked at TNO, The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, and as a post-doctoral researcher at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, where he contributed to the early development of EFFECT Photonics.

PANELLISTS INCLUDE

Anthony Yu

GlobalFoundries

Dr. Anthony J. Yu is Vice President of the Silicon Photonics Product Management organization at GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF), where he is responsible for providing differentiated silicon photonic manufacturing services and solutions to clients across multiple industries. Prior to this role, Dr. Yu was Vice President of GF’s Computing and Wired Infrastructure Business Unit.Before joining GF, he held multiple executive positions at IBM, including Vice President of Semiconductor Technology for Engineering and Technology Services.Yu earned his BS in Physical Chemistry from the University of California-Berkeley and his PhD in Physical Chemistry / Materials Science from Cornell University.

Bowen Wang

Tower Semiconductor

Bowen Wang joined Tower Semiconductor as a Fab Process Dev SiPho Integration Engineer, Sr Staff in June 2022 and focuses on photonic integration in in high-volume production. Prior to that, he was a senior application engineer in Synopsys and worked on the photonic design automation (PDA). He has 15+ years experience of photonic integrated circuit design, fabrication and characterzation. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands in 2011. 

Timo Aalto

VTT

Timo Aalto leads the Silicon Photonics research at VTT. His research focuses on the micron-scale silicon waveguides that are used to make ultra-compact and low-loss photonic integrated circuits for communication, imaging and sensing applications at near and mid infrared wavelengths. He has contributed to about 100 scientific publications, reviewed several EU projects, journal articles and theses and coordinated large projects funded by Business Finland, EU, the European space agency and industry. Timo Aalto received his D.Sc. (tech) degree in optoelectronics technology from the Helsinki University of Technology in 2004 and has worked in Silicon photonics research at VTT since 1997.