Events

The first HELIOS School that will be hosted in Trento surroundings on 15-21 March, 2009.

More informations are available at: http://portale.unitn.it/events/cmosphotonics

High efficiency grating coupler demonstrated by HELIOS partners

Invited talk on CMOS photonics presented by HELIOS partners.

The conference IP - ESC 2009 (IP-Embedded Systems Conference), will take place in Grenoble, France, on Dec. 1-3 2009. An invited presentation of HELIOS will be given within a visionary scientific seminar entitled "Future in IP interconnects: optical, 3-D, wireless, what are the main challenges?"

40 GBit/s germanium photodetector demonstrated by HELIOS partners

HELIOS Achievements in First Year

Design training session organised in Enschede, The Netherlands, February 2-5, 2010

Silicon nanocrystals for light emission and detection

4 invited talks and 1 poster will be presented by HELIOS partners during this conference

1. "Carrier depletion based silicon optical modulators", by D. Marris-Morini et al.
2. "III-V sources on silicon" by D. Van Thourhout
3. "Silicon-based light sources" by O. Anopchenko
4. "Silicon photonics integration with electronic circuit" by JM Fedeli
5. "A 10Gb/s transimpedance amplifier for hybrid integration of a Ge PIN waveguide photodiode" by A. Polzer et al.

A special session on European projects in silicon photonics will be organized on Tuesday 13 April within the conference 7719 "Silicon Photonics and Photonic Integrated Circuits". The HELIOS project will be presented by Jean-Marc Fedeli, project manager.

Don't miss this opportunity to meet the main European players in the this field!

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European Silicon Photonics Cluster has been launched to coordinate efforts between 10 European R&D project consortia

HELIOS has organized a workshop entitled Silicon Photonics: Challenges and Opportunities for the Next Decade on Sept 17, 2010 during the 36th European Conference and exhibition on Optical Communications.

More than 150 people attended this event. Some of the presentations are available online

Selection of articles reporting HELIOS results

Three HELIOS partners will present their results at the Next-Generation On-Chip Optical Interconnect and Group IV Integrated Photonics Forum, December 9-10, 2010, Hsinchu, Taiwan

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HELIOS co-organizes a workshop on Packaging and test challenges for industrialization of silicon in Munich on 23 May 2011.

Companies and research centres will describe their vision of silicon photonics with a focus on the requirements and challenges for innovative test, packaging and device integration solutions

Do not miss this event !

The participation in the workshop is free but registration is mandatory

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HELIOS has co-organized a workshop on Packaging and test challenges for industrialization of silicon in Munich on 23 May 2011.

More than 70 participants attended this vent wher companies and research centres described their vision of silicon photonics with a focus on the requirements and challenges for innovative test, packaging and device integration solutions

The presentations are now available online

GPF 2011 conference, 14-16 Sept 2011, London