MicroCombSys
About the Research Program
MicroCombSys: Photonic System Engineering with Microcombs
Frequency combs are one of the key-enabling technologies to enable the use of photonic technology in applications related to precision spectroscopy, frequency synthesis, metrology, and quantum technologies. Today, these devices are commercially available in the form of products based on fiber optics, and the research community has turned its attention towards realizing frequency combs based on photonic chips – also referred to as microcombs, which hold massive potential in terms of scalability and low SWaP related to the small form factor, and also hold unique applications for photonic microwave synthesis and the calibration of astronomical spectrographs due to their unique line spacing.
The goal of the doctoral network MicroCombSys is to provide the scientific training necessary to bridge the gap between proof-of-principle applications and the commercial deployment of this disruptive technology. The network achieves this by bringing experts from academia together with world-leading players from industry, merging all necessary subject areas, i.e., microresonator frequency combs, heterogeneous integration, packaging technology, and nonlinear physics, and application fields, from quantum information processing to biophotonics, in a single network. MicroCombSys paves the way not only for the career of 12 doctoral candidates, but also contributes to a highly educated European workforce in the field of integrated photonics.
In the consortium, Menlo Systems is developing chip-based modules for the generation and tailoring of laser light for quantum applications.
Related websites:
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101119968
We gratefully acknowledge funding by Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions by the Horizon Europe program of the European Commission.
