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CORNERSTONE 2

Project overview

The Universities of Southampton (SOU) and Glasgow (GLA) have established a new Silicon Photonics fabrication capability for the UK science base, through a project entitled CORNERSTONE. Following completion of the project, from December 2019 the CORNERSTONE fabrication capability will be self-sustaining. Based upon demand from the UK’s premier photonics researchers, this proposal seeks funding to extend the capability that is offered to UK researchers beyond the current Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) platforms, to include emerging Silicon Photonics platforms. These emerging platforms will enable a multitude of new applications either not suitable for the SOI platforms, or complementary to the SOI platforms. This proposal seeks support to bring the new platforms to a state of readiness to deliver the new functionality via a multi-project-wafer (MPW) mechanism to satisfy significantly increasing demand, and to encourage wider usage of world class equipment within the UK. This resource-only bid will facilitate access to a very significant inventory of equipment at the 2 host universities, including access to UK’s only deep-UV projection lithography capability.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Graham Reed FREng, FIET, FOSA, FSPIE, FEOS

Head of School
Connect with Graham

Email: G.Reed@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor David Thomson

Professorial Fellow-Research
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Email: D.Thomson@soton.ac.uk

Professor Frederic Gardes PhD

Professor
Connect with Frederic

Email: fg5v@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Professor Harold Chong

Professor of Electronic Engineering
Connect with Harold

Email: hmhc@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Professor Goran Mashanovich

Personal Chair

Research interests

  • Silicon Photonics
  • Photonics Integrated Circuits
  • Sensors
Connect with Goran

Email: G.Mashanovich@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Broadband 2 x 2 multimode interference coupler for mid-infrared wavelengths
Callum Stirling, Robert Halir, Alejandro Sánchez-Postigo, Zhibo Qu, Jamie Dean Reynolds, Jordi Soler-Penadés, Ganapathy Senthil Murugan, Alejandro Ortega-Moñux, Gonzalo Wangüemert-Pérez, Íñigo Molina-Fernández, Goran Mashanovich & Miloš Nedeljković, 2021, Optics Letters, 46(21), 5300-5303
DOI: 10.1364/OL.439985
Type: article
10 nm SiO2 TM slot mode in laterally mismatched asymmetric fin-waveguides
James J. Byers, Kapil Debnath, Hideo Arimoto, Muhammad K. Husain, Moise Sotto, Joseph, William Hillier, Kian Shen Kiang, David Thomson, Graham T. Reed, Martin Charlton & Shinichi Saito, 2021, Frontiers in Physics, 9, 237
DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2021.659585
Type: article
High-speed silicon Michelson interferometer modulator and streamlined IMDD PAM-4 transmission of Mach-Zehnder modulators for the 2 μm wavelength band
Wei Cao, Shenghao Liu, Callum G. Littlejohns, David J. Thomson, Miloš Nedeljković, Weiwei Zhang, Ke Li, Mehdi Banakar, Ying Tran, Xingzhao Yan, Han Du, Zhengqi Ren, Frederic Gardes, Graham T. Reed & Goran Z. Mashanovich, 2021, Optics Express, 29(10), 14438-14451
DOI: 10.1364/OE.418285
Type: article
Deep learning enabled design of complex transmission matrices for universal optical components
Nicholas J. Dinsdale, Peter R. Wiecha, Matthew Delaney, Jamie Reynolds, Martin Ebert, Ioannis Zeimpekis, David J. Thomson, Graham T. Reed, Philippe Lalanne, Kevin Vynck & Otto L. Muskens, 2021, ACS Photonics, 8(1), 283-295
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c01481
Type: article
High bandwidth capacitance efficient Silicon MOS modulator
Weiwei Zhang, Kapil Debnath, Bigeng Chen, Ke Li, Shenghao Liu, Martin Ebert, Jamie Dean Reynolds, Ali Z. Khokhar, Callum Littlejohns, James J Byers, Muhammad K. Husain, Frederic Gardes, Shinichi Saito & David J. Thomson, 2021, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 39(1), 201-207
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2020.3026945
Type: article