Integrated photonics uses the power of light to create energy-efficient, faster, and more accurate microchips. The technology is set to play an essential role in finding and developing solutions for the world’s challenges, such as reducing energy consumption, improving healthcare, fighting food waste and our continuous hunger for information. As a foundry for integrated photonic circuits, SMART Photonics offers solutions for data and telecommunication, as well as for sensing – such as Lidar – and medical applications. And it doesn’t stop there.
SMART Photonics aims to be the leading foundry for integrated photonics, creating innovative products that improve people’s lives.
November 12th 2024
X-FAB Silicon Foundries SE, the leading analog/mixed-signal and specialty foundry, and SMART Photonics, the leading Indium Phosphide (InP) integrated photonics foundry, have announced a strategic collaboration. This collaboration intends to…
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CareersIntegrated photonics is the emerging suite of technologies in which the manipulation of light takes place on a single chip. Building systems on a chip means that the resulting products can be an order of magnitude faster than conventional electronic solutions, whilst being greener (significantly less energy consumption), cheaper, lighter and smaller.
Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) are creating a similar impact to the way integrated circuits revolutionised microelectronics in the 1980’s. For this reason, integrated photonics is becoming increasingly common in datacentres, 5G telecom hubs, and medical diagnostics. Small, light-based sensors are key to making affordable zero-latency systems in self-driving cars, as well as for finding applications in smart agriculture, advanced food-processing and aerospace.
The EU recognizes photonics as one of the six ‘Key Enabling Technologies (KETs)’. The expectations are, that this new technology will cause a revolution similar to that of electronic chips forty years ago, when people first started to integrate electronic components into electronic (micro) chips. SMART Photonics believes that PIC’s will enable future solutions we can not imagine today.
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