There’s a strong general drive for technologies enabling radically cheaper, faster, lighter, greener, more robust and reliable solutions. Integrated Photonics is a technology that offers further miniaturization, faster connections and virtually unlimited data transport possibilities at much lower energy consumption per bit. Besides, integrated Photonics is a key enabler and accelerator for the development and maturing of many promising technologies, e.g. 5G, Quantum Computing,  Autonomous driving, Smart and Autonomous Mobile Robots, Bio-sensing, Internet-of-Things, Mixed Reality/Augmented reality (e.g. AR/VR) and Smart wearables.

Size, (manufacturing) cost, reliability, and in some cases power consumption, of opto-mechanic/electronic (sub)systems based on bulk free-space optics and/or discrete photonics components constitute a barrier to the evolution of a large number of current and future (large-volume) digital solution, in particular those based on components such as sensors and transceivers.

Integrated Photonics can overcome at once all those barriers thanks to the integration of multiple photons generation, gain control, processing and detection functions into application specific miniaturized Photonics Integrated Circuits (PICs) fabricated using  automated wafer-scale technology over silicon, silica or InP substrates.

As a consequence, PICs and PICs-powered modules offer an enormous disruptive potential to enable commercial viability of innovative solutions in many markets and related key enabling technologies.

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