If silicon is one of the main materials used by the integrated photonics industry – because it reuses the manufacturing processes in force in the microelectronic area –, glass is also the subject of all attention due to its optical characteristics: its transparency for visible to infrared wavelengths, its low refractive index, and its linear optical properties indeed allow, in comparison with silicon, to benefit from numerous advantages at the component scale, the reduction of input/output channels footprint, better performance for passive functions, the opportunity to operate in the visible area, and greater temperature stability.
By developing a process to manufacture waveguides on glass based on an ion-exchange reaction called ioNext, Teem Photonics gives CMP users the opportunity to take advantage of glass assets by having a wide variety of passive components – available in a design kit that can be used through the free access design software NAZCA – to design and manufacture photonics circuits combining routing, filtering and coupling functions.
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NAZCA (free and open-source framework dedicated to photonics IC design)
1 month between the gds transmission and the chip delivery
