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.
CONSORTIUM
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
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
VPIphotonics GmbH
Company & industrial lab
Germany
Role in ELENA: Design and simulation
Key expertise: Photonic building blocks (active and passive)
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ)
Research organisation
Switzerland
Key expertise: Design and simulation
Key expertise: Photonic building blocks (active and passive)
Vanguard Automation GmbH
SME
Germany
Role in ELENA: Packaging and interfacing
Key expertise: Packaging and interfacing with other PIC platforms, fibres and electronic chips
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
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
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
L-up SAS
SME, France
Key expertise: Project management, communication/dissemination, clustering
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
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.
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.