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Silicon photonics luminary, Lionel Kimerling, professor of materials science and engineering at MIT, and an active member of AIM Photonics, views its focus on manufacturing as an important development.

The discipline of manufacturing is something that the chip industry has mastered through designing process integration, selecting materials and all the qualification standards used to meet system requirements, he says, but is less developed in the photonics industry.

AIM is making available a chip fabrication plant to interested companies. SUNY Polytechnic Institute has been working with MIT for the last six years to develop a 300mm-wafer silicon photonics line at its Albany site. The fab offers a multi-project wafer service whereby several designs can be made on a single wafer, allowing costs to be shared among companies.

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