THE OUCOMES OF SAPPHIRE, A GENERIC FOUNDRY PLATFORM FOR SILICON PHOTONICS

The PRIN 2009 Project SAPPHIRE has created the first national infrastructure for a shared access to a silicon photonic foundry. The goal has been accomplished developing dedicated design kits of silicon photonic building blocks together with software tools for high-level circuit design of Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs). Here, we present successful examples of silicon photonic PICs fabricated in multi project wafers in the framework of the SAPPHIRE platform, demonstrating the flexibility and the viability of the generic foundry model for silicon photonics.