{"id":38,"date":"2024-02-07T14:01:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T14:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phormic.eu\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2025-05-13T20:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T20:05:07","slug":"about-the-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.phormic.eu\/index.php\/the-phormic-project\/about-the-project\/","title":{"rendered":"About the project"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"38\" class=\"elementor elementor-38\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3acc4b33 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3acc4b33\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;boxed&quot;}\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1933351c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1933351c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.19.0 - 05-02-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-168 size-large\" style=\"width: 452px; height: auto;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phormic.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/project_components2-1024x955.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.phormic.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/project_components2-1024x955.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.phormic.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/project_components2-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.phormic.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/project_components2-768x717.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.phormic.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/project_components2-1536x1433.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.phormic.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/project_components2-2048x1911.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><!-- wp:paragraph {\"align\":\"left\"} --><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">PHORMIC establishes a European platform for next-generation programmable photonic chips with a low adoption threshold for product developers in diverse application domains. The PHORMIC platform consists of three tiers.<br \/>The first tier is a 200 mm wafer-scale fabrication flow that augments an established world-class silicon photonics platform with transfer-printed III-V optical amplifiers, compact low-power MEMS actuators, and fast electro-optic organic hybrid modulators. The devices are encapsulated in wafer-scale hermetically sealed cavities that will also be used for on-chip gas cells to calibrate the tunable lasers built in PHORMIC. The combination of high-speed silicon photonics, broadband optical gain and low-power MEMS tuners is a true enabler for new applications. The process flow will be supported by a design kit for building complex photonic circuits.<br \/>The second tier supplements the photonic chips with modular packaging processes and driver electronics (including high-speed drivers), and the packaging and connectivity logic are integrated in the design kit. This provides a low-threshold entry point for building complex photonic chip-based systems with active control and programmability.<br \/>The third tier builds on this to create a multipurpose programmable photonic processor, which can control the flow of light in an analogue way through a software interface. This chip, together with its electronics and programming framework, forms a true \u201cphotonics development kit\u201d. This enables an off-the-shelf use model like that of electronic FPGAs, reducing prototyping time for new concepts from &gt;1 year to weeks.<br \/>The PHORMIC consortium has all expertise to establish a full supply chain, including a migration path to a European industrial 200 mm foundry. The application potential of the three tiers of the platform is validated through three demonstrators, in datacenter communication, sensing and mm-wave wireless beamforming. For each case, a custom-designed chip will be compared to the multipurpose photonic processor.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHORMIC establishes a European platform for next-generation programmable photonic chips with a low adoption threshold for product developers in diverse application domains. 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