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Centre for Integrated Photonics (CIP)

Short description

The Centre for Integrated Photonics Ltd (CIP) is an R&D facility that specialises in integration technologies for microsystems and nanotechnologies, with a key competence in photonic integration. The company has been set up to carry out contract research and development in photonic integration, using the underpinning technologies of III-V photonic materials, silicon micromachining, and planar silica.

CIP sits between industry and academia as an organisation that can take research ideas and turn them into prototypes and pilot products. This is a role that CIP is already undertaking on other 6th FW projects and is also carrying out under direct contract R&D for major corporate customers and SME’s.

CIP's extensive facilities and capability include design, fabrication, analysis, packaging and system testing to support world-leading device innovations. The centre's staff are highly experienced in commercial R&D (>300 man years for core technical staff) and internationally recognised in their technical areas. The Centre is set up as an open access laboratory to offer services to both industry and academia, and act as a bridge between them, allowing industry access to new ideas from academia, and academia access to down streaming routes to industry.

Website

www.ciphotonics.com

Primary contact person

David W. Smith
CIP Technologies
Adastral Park
Martlesham Heath
Ipswich
Suffolk
United Kingdom.
IP5 3RE
Tel: +44 1473 663251
Fax: +44 1473 663295

Participants

David W. Smith has 28 years of research and management experience in photonics and communications. Up to 2003 he was Global Research Director of Optical Layer Technologies for Corning Inc. with responsibility for research direction and project delivery. Previously he managed the long-range network research programme at BT laboratories. More recently David has been a member of the team that founded CIP and is currently Chief Technology Officer. He is named inventor on 22 granted patents and has authored more than 100 conference and journal publications.

Michael Robertson; Dave Moodie.



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