Vendor: Alcyon Photonics Category: Modulator

Photonics IP cores

The Alcyon Photonics PIP core© portfolio ranges from single components (building blocks) to topologies (circuits).

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Overview

The Alcyon Photonics PIP core© portfolio ranges from single components (building blocks) to advanced topologies (circuits). Alcyon’s portfolio is continuously growing to better address the customers’ needs.
The building blocks integrate various design strategies, intended to address key functionalities and prioritize the extraction of optimal performance from specific process rules.

The advanced topologies within the PIP cores© enable signal processing in the optical domain and they were devised to relieve the customer from design work at the component level. Additionally, these PIP cores© are based on reconfigurable PICs which combine several components (splitters, phase shifters, etc) optimized to provide with:

  • High adaptability to customer requirements.
  • Configurability after deployment to compensate for manufacturing deviations (improved yield).
  • Fine-tuning of the spectral response.
  • Optimization to achieve minimal propagation losses or high Q factors.

Alcyon’s IP Library for ANT encompasses a collection of 11 innovative designs protected either through patents or by a trade secret protocol. The library offers a comprehensive set of functionalities under the SOI platform covering most passive operations present in current photonic integrated circuits: from basic structures (bends, waveguide routings, power dividers…) to more complex functions such as mode and polarization (de)multiplexers, broadband directional couplers or polarization splitters.

Exhaustive documentation is provided regarding the components’ performance together with a kit containing their compact models, making it feasible for the users to incorporate the Alcyon IP blocks in their end-circuit applications.

Alcyon’s Library for ANT is available for various SW platforms: Alcyon Toolkit, Luceda IPKISS and Synopsys OptoCompiler   

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Part Number
PIP core
Vendor
Alcyon Photonics

Provider

Alcyon Photonics
Alcyon Photonics aims to facilitate the adoption of integrated photonics by delivering robust and efficient integrated photonic circuit designs. We help customers shorten their development cycles by providing access to our portfolio of validated IP and through custom developments. Alcyon continuously expands its IP portfolio and engages with key silicon photonic foundries to provide comprehensive proposals to customers. Additionally, we make available our capabilities to customers, supporting them in their journey from the initial idea to tape out, working based on our existing portfolio of PICs (PIP cores©), or developing custom solutions. Alcyon has received recognition at both national and international levels, with the awarding of numerous innovation projects. These projects credit not only our commitment to pushing the boundaries of innovation but also the recognition of our potential to make a meaningful impact at a global scale. These projects include an EIC Accelerator within the Horizon Europe programme, a Eurostars as part of the European Partnership on Innovative SMEs, and several national projects including a NEOTEC-CDTI. Additionally, we have been awarded the Innovative SME seal and a European Commission Seal of Excellence.
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