Alcyon Photonics
facilitating your integrated photonics designs
Alcyon is committed to boost the electronics to photonics transition, by making available high-performance photonics element designs for end customers to define its Photonic Integrated Circuits
SWG excedeing performance
Our technology
Alcyon’s designs are based on SUBWAVELENGTH GRATING (SWG) which enables disruptive light management through metamaterial–like design induced by own know-how of periodic geometry.
Our Photonic library
Design your Photonic circuits
Alcyon’s comprehensive library of Photonic Building Blocks will allow you to design your circuits based on the functionalities to perform
Simulate and optimize your design
Alcyon’s library integration with commercial PDKs and simulation software will allow you to emulate the outcome of your circuit
Fabricate and commercialize your device
Smooth integration with circuit layout tools to faciliate your design compabitiliby with foundries
About us
From paper to industry
Alcyon Photonics is a spin off based on leading research on Integrated Photonics from the Optics Institute of the Spanish Research Council (IO-CSIC)
Aitor Villafranca – Scientific Advisor
Silicon Photonics Market is expected to register a 22.93% CAGR, exhibiting substantial growth during the forecast period. The market was valued at USD 742.48 Million in the year 2018; it is expected to reach USD 2,518.59 Million by 2024.
Global Silicon Photonics Market Research. Markets report world
On the news
Papers and publications
Subwavelength integrated photonics
Subwavelength integrated photonics
In the late nineteenth century, Heinrich Hertz demonstrated that the electromagnetic properties of materials are intimately related to their structure at the subwavelength scale by using wire grids with centimetre spacing to manipulate metre-long radio waves. More recently, the availability of nanometre-scale fabrication techniques has inspired scientists to investigate subwavelength-structured metamaterials with engineered optical properties at much shorter wavelengths, in the infrared and visible regions of the spectrum. Here we review how optical metamaterials are expected to enhance the performance of the next generation of integrated photonic devices, and explore some of the challenges encountered in the transition from concept demonstration to viable technology. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0421-7
Ultra-broadband nanophotonic phase shifter based on subwavelength metamaterial waveguides
Optical phase shifters are extensively used in integrated optics not only fortelecom and datacom applications but also for sensors and quantum computing. While various active solutions have been demonstrated, progress in passive phase shifters is still lacking. Here we present a new type of ultra-broadband 90° phase shifter, which exploits the anisotropy and dispersion engineering in subwavelength metamaterial waveguides. Our Floquet– Bloch calculations predict a phase-shift error below 1.7° over an unprecedented operation range from 1.35 to 1.75 μm, i.e., 400 nm bandwidth covering the E, S, C, L, and U telecommunication bands. The flat spectral response of our phase shifter is maintained even in the presence of fabrication errors up to 20 nm, showing greater robustness than conventional structures. Our device was experimentally demonstrated using standard 220 nm thick SOI wafers, showing a fourfold reduction in the phase variation compared to conventional phase shifters within the 145 nm wavelength range of our measurement setup. The proposed subwavelength engineered phaseshifterpaves thewayfornovel photonic integrated circuits withanultra-broadband performance. https://www.osapublishing.org/prj/abstract.cfm?uri=prj-8-3-359
Bring your design to market
We support photonics designers on the commercialization of their designs. If you have a Building Block or Circuit that is seeking for a customer, contact us!
