MORPHIC in Laser Focus World.
Laser Focus World did a focus article on MORPHIC for the publication of Niels Quacks overview paper in Microsystems & NanoEngineering. Read all about it here.
MORPHIC Approach
In MORPHIC, we will enhance an established Silicon Photonics platform with MEMS actuators so photonic circuits can be programmed, and reprogrammed, for a variety of optical functions with built-in redundancy and resilience. To achieve that, MORPHIC will introduce:
Low-power photonic MEMS actuators into silicon photonics
Non-volatile mechanical latching operation
Programmable connectivity implemented in a large-scale circuit matrix
MORPHIC will validate both the silicon photonic MEMS technology and the FP-PIC platform on three applications that benefit from low-power reconfigurability: an optical switch matrix, an optical beam forming network and a programmable microwave photonics filter.
Morphic Meetings
Consortium
The MORPHIC consortium is especially well suited to realise the ambitions defined above. It combines all the relevant expertise in silicon photonics, large photonic circuits and circuit design, MEMS and especially waveguide-based MEMS. The starting point of the technology development is based on an IMEC’s established technology platform that has demonstrated world-class performance. The two industrial players (VLC, COM), as well as two industrially oriented research centres (IMEC, TYN) guarantee a broad perspective on the possible application and provide a scaling route to volume production beyond MORPHIC.
News & Updates
The last (thirteenth) general meeting of the project was hosted by KTH in Stockholm, Sweden, on June 20th and 21st, 2022.
The twelfth general meeting was hosted by IMEC in Ghent, Belgium, on February 7th and 8th, 2022. It was a hybrid meet-up as some partners could not travel due to the COVID restrictions.
We had our eleventh general meeting on September 21st and 22nd, 2021. It was an online meet-up due to COVID-19.
We had our tenth general meeting on May 27th and 28th, 2021. It was an online meet-up due to COVID-19.
We had our ninth general meeting on January 21st and 22nd, 2021. It was an online meet-up due to COVID-19.
Read the review paper on programmable photonics in Nature by Wim Bogaerts and his co-authors.
We had our second review meeting (online) on 8 October 2020
We had our eighth general meeting on August 27th and 28th, 2020. It was an online meet-up due to COVID-19.
The seventh general meeting was scheduled to be hosted by KTH in Stockholm, Sweden on April 27th and 28th, 2020. But due to COVID-19, it was changed to an online meetup.
The sixth general meeting was hosted by EPFL in Saas-Grund, Switzerland, on January 9th and 10th, 2020.
The fifth general meeting was hosted by Tyndall National Institute in Dublin, Ireland, on September 26th and 27th, 2019.
Morphic just got a lot of visibility at the IEEE Summer Topical 2019 meeting in Ft. Lauderdale.
The fourth general meeting was hosted by Tyndall National Institute in Cork, Ireland, on March 20th and 21st, 2019.
The third general meeting was hosted by EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, on November 15th and 16th, 2018.
