Actives Silicon Photonics Course 2020

Name: Actives Silicon Photonics Course 2020
Start: 2020-5-5T11:00-5:00
End: 2020-5-30T16:00-5:00

Completed05may(may 5)11:00 am30(may 30)4:00 pmActives Silicon Photonics Course 2020CMC-Hosted Training

Event Details

On-line, live May 24 to 30, 2020

In response to COVID-19 Pandemic, CMC and our partner professors from UBC and Laval are offering this legendary Silicon photonics course on-line.

This course trains students in the design, fabrication, and test of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) targeting the AMF Si Photonics technology, available through CMC Microsystems. It can be a stand-alone learning opportunity or combined with your research and/or development. Target applications include optical communications and sensors.

Siemens and Lumerical (now part of the ANSYS family) are supporting this course by providing preferred access arrangements to their tools for participants enrolled in this course (more information below).

Important Notes:

To obtain access to confidential technology information provided during the course, your organization is required to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) with CMC Microsystems. Please contact Kim Sandaluk (Sandaluk@cmc.ca) to facilitate the NDA execution process prior to May 10, 2020.
Because course participants will have access to other proprietary and confidential information during the course, each participant is required to sign an Access to Intellectual Property & Non-Disclosure Agreement. Participants should submit a signed agreement to Sarah Neville (Sarah.Neville@cmc.ca) prior to May 17, 2020.

Pre-requisites

Completion of the Passive Silicon Nanophotonics course, experience with PIC design, or permission from the instructors.

Schedule

Date	Time	Location
May 5 to June 23, 2020	At your own schedule	Pre-recorded video lectures, tutorials and activities
May 24 to 30, 2020	11:00 am to 4:00 pm EDT	Video Conference call via Zoom

Pricing and Registration

Option	Option 1	Option 2	Option 3	Option 4
Description	A three-credit graduate course in the fundamentals of active silicon photonics device and circuit design, fabrication and testing, beginning with a 7-day on-line workshop	A year-long training in the fundamentals of active silicon photonics device and circuit design, fabrication and testing, beginning with a 7-day on-line workshop	A year-long training in the fundamentals of active silicon photonics device and circuit design, fabrication and testing, beginning with a 7-day on-line workshop	Workshop-only option: 7-day on-line workshop, including access to CAD tools during the workshop and for two weeks following the workshop. Fabrication is not included
Price	$1,000 discounted fabrication fee (see Eligibility and Special Notes below). Registration fee includes chip fabrication area on a shared fabrication run.	Preferred pricing: $1,400 tuition and fabrication fee (see Eligibility and Special Notes below) Registration fee includes chip fabrication area on a shared fabrication run.	Standard pricing including tuition and fabrication fee Industry: $7,900 Academic: $6,650 Registration fee includes chip fabrication area on a shared fabrication run.	Standard pricing for tuition-only fee: Industry: $2,900 Academic: $1,650
Eligibility	This pricing option requires course registration for one of the following (see Special Notes): UBC ELEC 581 Laval University GEL 7070 or GEL 7071	This price option is available only to Canadian academics who have (or whose supervisor has) a subscription with CMC.	This pricing option is available for any researcher that is not eligible for Options 1 and 2.
Special Notes	Visiting students from institutions noted in Appendix A may register for UBC ELEC 581.
Registration	Closed.
Note: A discount is available on options 3 and 4 for multiple participants from the same organization. Contact Zhang@cmc.ca for details.

Training Schedule

On-line pre-recorded video lectures, tutorials and activities (Passives, introduction to Actives): May 5 to June 23, 2020
On-line Actives course: May 24 to 30, 2020
Design, modeling and mask layout: June to October, 2020
- Access to software tools, tutorials, and on-line discussion forums
- Design feedback provided
Design proposal deadline: September 28, 2020
Design review: September 2020 (for students benefiting from discounted pricing, your faculty supervisor’s sign-off on the design report and mask layout is required before your design can proceed to fabrication)
Design submission (layout deadline): October 19, 2020
Device shipment date: April, 2021
Device testing and model validation: May and June, 2021
Final report: July, 2021

Technology Description

Silicon-on-insulator, 220-nm top Si film, 2000-nm buried oxide (BOX)
193-nm deep UV lithography, enabling features down to approximately 150 nm
Supports design and fabrication of a range of components and systems consisting of:
- modulators
- detectors
- waveguides (strip or ridge)
- gratings for fiber coupling
- deep trench and nano-tapers for edge coupling
- multiplexers (diffraction or arrayed waveguide) and filters (resonators, Bragg gratings)
- ring and disk resonators
Fabrication is carried out at AMF in Singapore.

Course Details

Instruction Syllabus Summary

Fabrication processes and design kits
Device modeling (detectors, modulators, rings, MZI, PN & PIN junctions, thermal tuning, optical components, microwave design of electrodes)
- CAD tools: Synopsis, Lumerical MODE Solutions, FDTD Solutions, INTERCONNECT and DEVICE
Layout & verification
- CAD tools: K-layout, Siemens Tanner and Calibre
Design for Test and design for fabrication

Access to Tools

From Siemens:
- Siemens offers workshop attendees free access to Tanner and Calibre:
  - During the workshop
  - Following the workshop, for the purpose of completing their course designs.
- From Lumerical:
  - Lumerical offers all workshop attendees free access to their CAD tools (MODE Solutions, FDTD Solutions, INTERCONNECT and DEVICE) for one month.
  - After the first month, Lumerical makes short-term licenses available to workshop attendees in support of post-workshop objectives, under the following terms:
    - For participants from educational institutions: Participants that are full-time students or faculty members at accredited, degree-granting educational institutions can make a one-time request for an additional free three-month license for each applicable Lumerical product. Academic participants who have already requested their free three-month license may purchase short-term licenses to support post-workshop objectives.
    - All other participants: may purchase short-term licenses to support post-workshop objectives.
  - Post-workshop License Pricing is available upon request.

Contact

If you have any comments or questions regarding the course content or registration, please contact Jessica Zhang at zhang@cmc.ca.

Cancellations

Course cancellations must be received in writing at least one (1) week before the beginning date of the course in question to receive a full refund of the registration fee. A cancellation made after the deadline will not receive a refund. CMC Microsystems makes no commitments on refunds for travel or accommodations.

Appendix A

Students enrolled in graduate programs at other Canadian universities may enroll the UBC course as a visiting student. Application to UBC graduate school is required. Conditions may apply. Details can be found at:
https://www.grad.ubc.ca/prospective-students/application-admission/visitors-canadian-universities

Time

5 (Tuesday) 11:00 am - 30 (Saturday) 4:00 pm EDT(GMT+00:00)

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