Aluminium oxide is an excellent platform for the development of PICs that can operate from the UV (200 nm) till the near-IR (3 um). Doping the material with rare-earth ions allows for optical amplification at different wavelength ranges. In this presentation, we will give an overview of the performance of the technology as well as some examples of basic building blocks recently developed.
Sonia M. Garcia-Blanco is professor at the University of Twente (Netherlands) and co-founder of ALUVIA Photonics. She holds a Telecommunications Engineering degree from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and a PhD in Integrated Optics from the University of Glasgow. After a post-doctoral position at the University of Toronto, she worked as scientific staff at INO, Quebec (Canada) before joining the university of Twente in 2010. Together with her group (Integrated Optical Systems (IOS) group) they develop new material and integration platforms for integrated photonics. Prof. Garcia-Blanco is currently the coordinator of several European projects, including Ophellia, QU-PIC and the EIC Transition ALUVia. She received an ERC Consolidator grant in 2014 followed by an ERC Proof of concept.