Research themes:

• Design and Modeling for Integrated Photonics
• Heterogeneous integration technology for silicon photonics
• Integrated lasers and LEDs
• Integrated nonlinear optics
• Lab-on-a-chip label-free biosensors
• Large-Scale Photonic Integration
• Mid IR silicon photonics
• Neuromorphic computing enabled by integrated photonics
• Photonic ICs for telecom and datacom
• Photonic integrated circuits for the visible/near IR
• Photonics packaging
• Photonics-electronics convergence
• Silicon photonics for biomedical applications
• Silicon photonics for lab-on-chip spectroscopy
• Silicon photonics for telecom, datacom and interconnect
• Silicon Photonics Process Technology
• Super-resolved microscopy enabled by silicon photonics

Enabling technologies and components

• imec technologies (SOI and SiN)
• Bonding and Transfer printing
• Heterogeneous integration, beyond bonding
• Large-scale photonic integration

Data applications

• Lasers for ultrahigh speed modulation, fast tuning or ultralow linewidth
• Advanced transceivers
• Modulators and switches
• Nonlinear optics
• Brain-inspired information processing

Sensing

• Mid IR sensing
• Lab-on-chip refractive index biosensing
• Photonic crystals for biosensing
• Lab-on-chip Raman sensing
• Biomedical sensing

New topics

• Advanced microscopy enabled by integrated photonics
• THz photonics
• Solar water splitting