Materials and Fabrication Technologies for Photonic Integration
Semiconductors (III-V, II-VI and silicon), SOI, polymers, glass, ferro-electric materials, nano-wire and nano-tubes, micro- and nano-structuring
Photonic Crystals, Nanophotonics and Plasmonics
Quantum wells, quantum dots, doping of nanocrystals, photonic bandgap structures, plasmonic waveguides, micro-cavities, ferroelectric nano-domains
Integrated Devices
Splitters, combiners, l and polarization controllers, isolators, filters, microstructured devices, modulators, switches, multiplexers, VOAs, amplifiers, lasers, VCSELs, LEDs, detectors, biosensors, single-photon components
Hybridisation and Integration of Photonic Devices
Transceivers, duplexers and triplexers, FTTH-devices, OADM, MOEMS, OXC, packaging techniques, μ-fluidic systems, Lab-on-a-chip devices
Modeling, Theory and Simulation of Integrated Devices
Advanced numerical methods, progress in mode solvers, modelling of devices and systems
Application of integrated waveguide devices and systems
Telecom & datacom, bio- and medical applications, quantum communication, sensors and instrumentation, micro-wave and THz applications