What’s Matter Quantum Photonic Chip for Quantum Communication and Computing

Ai-Qun Liu SGP

In the past twenty years, silicon photonic technology and waveguide integrated device are greatly stimulated extensive research in fiber optical transistor from 100 Gbps to 400Gbps. Silicon photonics fabrication and integration are very powerful and significant breakthrough for traditional fibre optical communication and optical/photonic engineering, which is not only advantage of batch processing to address the manufacturing, but also make impact in the next generation of quantum network and quantum computing.

This talk will introduce and present: design and fabrication of quantum key distribution (QKD) chip, which in different components related to splitter, tunable MZI, switches and photodetector will be discussed. The fabrication processes will be explained for QKD chip. This talk will be concluded with the future trends and research directions in quantum integrated chip and silicon photonic integration technologies.

On the control of reconfigurable photonics integrated circuits

Andrea Melloni ITA

A collection of control, calibration, tuning and locking strategies and recipes for photonic integrated circuits are presented and discussed. The focus will be on ring based tunable and hitless filters and reconfigurable meshes of Mach-Zehnder Interferometers to manipulate optical beams and perform signal processing.

Next generation silicon photonics

Michal Lipson USA

We are now experiencing a revolution in optical technologies: in the past the state of the art in the field of photonics transitioned from individual miniaturized optical devices to massive optical circuits on a microelectronic chip that can be modified on demand. This revolution is ongoing –new materials and technologies are emerging to control the flow of light in unprecedented ways and it is opening the door to applications that only a decade ago were unimaginable.

How does an idea of immersive display evolve into multiple innovations in personalized medicine?

Sunghoon Kwon KOR

I was interested in future immersive display systems when I was a doctoral student, and that's why I was into optical MEMS. Due to the massive amount of data that needs to be processed in the display system, I thought it should be a self-assembled form of identical active display components that should organize itself as a display panel later. I proposed 'smart scalable systems' as a research theme that could enable such a massive system in display, energy, and biochips based on self-assembly of many heterogeneous components. Though the immersive display by self-assembly is still just an idea, this concept of smart scalable systems evolved into multiple biotech innovations for the past 15 years in my research group. I will present the concept of smart scalable systems first. Then I will talk about our researches in structural colored microparticles, DNA laser printer, life-saving antibiotic test, laser-based single-cell genomics, a few of which already become commercial products. It is even more interesting I am applying again the technique I learned from these researches back to displays that use self-assembly. Life is a journey full of expectations and surprises.