U.S. Air Force Awards AIM Photonics’ Member NLM Photonics $1.8 Million Contract
Program will support PDK development at AIM Photonics
AIM Photonics member NLM Photonics announced today that it has been awarded a $1.8 million AFWERX STTR Phase II Contract from the U.S. Air Force. This award funds a 21-month project with AIM Photonics to potentially offer modulator components in AIM Photonics’ process design kits (PDKs) for silicon-organic hybrid devices on the institute’s 300 mm silicon photonics platform. These devices focus on low-power, high-bandwidth electro-optic (EO) modulation for datacom, RF photonics, sensing, and more applications, utilizing silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) EO modulators.
“This project will allow NLM Photonics to perform critical process optimization and scale up, enabling us to demonstrate that our SOH technology can be deployed at scale in a foundry-friendly, advanced packaging process module. Having SOH modulator PDK components available on AIM Photonics’ platform will dramatically expand access to this enabling technology for US Government and commercial customers alike,” says Dr. Scott R. Hammond, Director of Process Development at NLM.