CONSORTIUM

The ELENA consortium comprises ten partners (from Research and Technology Development Centres to large industrials and SMEs) and has all the necessary competencies to reduce R&D costs of advanced PICs and implement the key aspects of a value chain for a sustainable LiNbO3-based PIC industry in Europe.

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Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM)

Research organisation
Switzerland

Role in ELENA: Project coordiation, processing and micro-fabrication, characterization and testing

Key expertise: Photonic building blocks (active and passive), photonics design/layout/GDS, fabrication process flow

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SOITEC SA

Large company & industrial lab
France

Role in ELENA: Susbtrate manufacuring process; roadmap for industrial manufacturing of LNOI wafers in volume

Key expertise: LNOI wafer manufacturing

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VPIphotonics GmbH

Company & industrial lab
Germany

Role in ELENA: Design and simulation

Key expertise: Photonic building blocks (active and passive)

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Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ)

Research organisation
Switzerland

Key expertise: Design and simulation

Key expertise: Photonic building blocks (active and passive)

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Vanguard Automation GmbH

SME
Germany

Role in ELENA: Packaging and interfacing

Key expertise: Packaging and interfacing with other PIC platforms, fibres and electronic chips

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THALES

Company & industrial lab
France

Role in ELENA: Prototyping for end-user applications

Key expertise: Prototypes & testing in quantum sensors, RF telecom for space applications and optical gyroscope

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III-V LAB

Company & industrial lab
France

Role in ELENA: Prototyping for end-user applications

Key expertise: Prototypes & testing in telecom-datacom / high-speed optical transmission for construction of chip-scale tuneable lasers

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Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik GmbH & Co KG

Company & industrial lab
Germany

Role in ELENA: Prototyping for end-user applications

Key expertise: Prototypes & testing in telecom / RF analogue signal transmisssion over optical fibres

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L-up SAS

SME, France

Key expertise: Project management, communication/dissemination, clustering

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Commissariat à l'énergie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA-LETI)

Company & industrial lab
France

Role in ELENA: LNOI wafer manufacturing and characterization

Key expertise: LNOI wafer manufacturing

Advisory board


ELENA-picto-consortium

ELENA is privileged to be able to count on the support of a remarkably high-level advisory board comprising the following:

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Iñigo Artundo
CEO

Received the M.Sc. in Telecom Engineering at the Universidad Pública de Navarra (Pamplona, Spain) in 2005, and received his Ph.D. on Applied Physics and Photonics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium) in 2009. He holds specializations in Business Financing, Commercial Management and Research, and Strategic Marketing. He has been involved in several national and European research projects and networks of excellence focused on reconfigurable optical interconnects, development of micro-optic devices and photonic integrated circuits, and on flexible access and in-building fiber network architectures. Since 2011 he has been involved in VLC Photonics, and he is currently the CEO. He has worked as a reviewer for several scientific journals and national funding agencies, including being a member of the high-level steering committee set up by the European Commission for the establishment of the Quantum Technologies Flagship program.

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Martin Shell
CEO

Martin Schell received the Dipl.Phys. degree from RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, in 1989 and the Dr.rer.nat. degree from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, in 1993. In 1995, he was Visiting Researcher at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. From 1996 to 2000, he was Management Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. From 2000 to 2005, he was Product Line Manager, and then Head of Production and Procurement, at Infineon Fiber Optics, Berlin. He is currently Director of the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin and Professor for optic and optoelectronic integration with the Technical University of Berlin. He served as a board member of the European Photonics Industry Consortium from 2015 to 2021. He is Chairman of the Competence Network Optical Technologies Berlin/Brandenburg (OptecBB), and Member of the Photonics21 Board of Stakeholders. His research focuses on Photonic Integrated Circuits for communication, sensing, and quantum applications.