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