InPulse

Start date
January 1, 2019
Duration
48 months
End date
31/12/2023
Overall budget
17.36M €
Number of partners
16
Contacts
Prof. Kevin Williams
Project coordinator
Eindhoven University of Technology
Marika Kůrová
Project Manager
AMIRES, The Business Innovation Management Institute, z.ú.
PROJECT WEBSITE

Indium-Phosphide Pilot Line for up-scaled, low-barrier, self-sustained, PIC ecosystem

 

InP photonic integrated circuits (PICs) offer game changing performance capabilities across multiple market sectors. Alas, the possibilities have so far been restricted to a small number of vertically-integrated technology businesses. Europe boasts tens of innovative businesses who are positioned to develop PIC-enabled technologies, but – alas again – they do not have access to mature, fast-turnaround predictable, high performance production. InPulse is a manufacturing pilot line for InP PICs which will transform the PIC industry from a vertically integrated model with all skills in-house within a small number of specialized businesses, to an open-access horizontal model accessible to all European innovators. InPulse puts in place the technological and operational processes to:

  • Accelerate the uptake of PIC technology in new markets: enabling SMEs to create tens of products in markets where PICs have not been used before
  • Enable sustainable production in Europe creating aligned, scalable and inter-locking services and value chains
  • Accelerate time to market from years to under 24 months with predictive design for fewer and faster product design cycles
  • Qualify foundry processes, to TRL7, sharing process optimization across products

InPulse combines low entrance-threshold, mature-manufacturing to enable tens of European PIC innovators.

InPulse is validated by:

  • A “Pilot Line Validation Program” with two Participants stretching performance
  • A “Demonstrator Open Call” program enabling external users to take thirty designs to pre-production
  • High frequency open access calls, sustainable beyond the end of the project

InPulse partners have played a pioneering role in open access InP PICs, creating an infrastructure for research and early stage development. We are very well positioned to enable high TRL development in a scalable design kit driven process driving open access InP PICs from proof of concept to industrial prototyping and pre-production.

 

AMIRES was involved in the project’s preparatory phase and in the negotiations. Within the project it is responsible for project management and organization of the open calls for pilot customers.

 

  • Partners:
    • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN, Netherlands
    • AMIRES, THE BUSINESS INNOVATION MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE, Z.Ú., Czech Republic
    • AARHUS UNIVERSITET, Denmark
    • BRIGHT PHOTONICS BV, Netherlands
    • EUROPEAN PHOTONICS INDUSTRY CONSORTIUM, France
    • FICONTEC SERVICE GMBH, Germany
    • FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN
      FORSCHUNG E.V., Germany
    • III-V LAB, France
    • MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD, Israel
    • PHOTON DESIGN LIMITED, United Kingdom
    • PHOENIX BV, Netherlands
    • SMART PHOTONICS BV, Netherlands
    • TECHNOBIS FIBRE TECHNOLOGIES BV, Netherlands
    • UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK – NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK, Ireland
    • VLC PHOTONICS SOCIEDAD LIMITADA, Spain
    • VPIPHOTONICS GMBH, Germany

 

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 824980, project InPulse.