POETICS

H2020 Research and Innovation project

CONSORTIUM

POETICS is a 3-year Research and Innovation Action project funded by the European Commission through the Horizon 2020 programme under the Photonics Public Private Partnership (www.photonics21.org).

POETICS proposes a holistic approach to the development of MCM switching devices with Terabit interfaces and optical switching circuits for interconnection distances 500m – 2km inside DC networks and DC interconnects up to 120 km in the metro/regional, based on a synergy of the best performing technologies and components.

In order to address the broad set of applications and achieve its objectives, POETICS brings together eight (8) leading companies and research centers among which an academic partner (ICCS), two (2) industry-oriented research institutes (Fraunhofer-HHI, IMEC), three (3) SMEs (LIONIX INT, PHIX, OPTAGON) and two (2) large companies (MLNX, TIM) from 5 European countries (Greece, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Italy) and one associated country (Israel).

Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS)

ICCS coordinates the action and is a system partner with broad range of system modelling and characterization capabilities, and unique expertise in the provision of an interface between the component and the system level. ICCS will be responsible for the system modelling of the optical switching circuit and for the largest part of the system testing activities, using the resources of its system lab.

Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz Institute

Fraunhofer-HHI leads the activity of the development and fabrication of the EMLs transmitters and detectors which will be advanced for improved performance at elevated T, and PolyBoard as a host platform for the InP active elements, the SMF and MCF fibers.

LioniX International BV

LioniX INT leads the efforts for the development of the tunable narrow linewidth laser to achieve 10 kHz linewidth over 50 nm in the C-band and assists PHIX in developing a high-volume compatible InP flip-chip bonding process on TriPleX.

Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum

IMEC will develop the efficient ultra-fast (100GBaud) MXU-DRV and TIA-DEMUX arrays with retiming and equalization functionalities in its BiCMOS platform.

Optagon Photonics

Optagon will contribute in the system level simulations, the DSP algorithms and the configuration algorithms and they lead the development of the electronic control units that will support the operation of external cavity laser and the optical switch. Optagon will also participate in the testing and the characterization of POETICS MCM transceivers and optical switch in lab-settings and in intra-DC and DC interconnect settings.

PHIX BV

PHIX will develop the powerful flip-chip bonding process of InP actives on TriPleX, the packaging activities of the optical engines, and together with MLNX will oversee and coordinate the co-design activities of the EMLs, SiGe ICs and boards for the optical engines to minimum signal loss and maximum performance.

Mellanox Technologies Ltd- MLNX

MLNX as system vendor, will exploit the technology developments of POETICS and in collaboration with TIM, one of the biggest telecom operators, is responsible for the guidance of the consortium regarding the application scenarios and the system requirements, the final testing of the devices and the provision of a direct commercialization path for POETICS technology at the system level. MLNX will also participate in the design activities and definition of the methodologies, the process flow for the assembly and packaging of the modules and will lead, in collaboration with ICCS, the evaluation of POETICS modules in a DC demonstrator testbed and quasi-real DC interconnect scenario.

Telecom Italia Spa

TIM will provide its contribution both as network operator, service provider and end user of innovation actions developed within the project. TIM leads the works related to the use cases and scenarios definition and devices’ specifications and will contribute to the network and system architectures.