498. Jenaer Optikkolloquium

Video streaming, phone calls, data transfer – ever more parts of our lives are happening online. Huge amounts of data need to be sent back and forth so that Netflix, Skype & our personal Dropbox can work on our computers and TVs at home in the quality we’ve become accustomed to. That’s only possible thanks to optical communications. And at the heart of it all are photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Their compact size and energy efficiency in particular make them attractive data transfer options.
Integrating optical functionalities on a chip is by far not a new idea. Almost four decades of research and development and todays semiconductor manufacturing technologies resulted in a technology, that is currently accessing more and more application fields such as optical an quantum computing, industrial metrology and automotive LIDAR as well as healthcare and life sciences.
This talk will give an introduction to the technology as well as current trends and challenges. Furthermore it will provide a brief overview of established and emerging applications including examples of Zeiss projects using photonic integrated circuits.

DER REFERENT
Seit 2004 arbeitet Herr Dr. Stefan Richter in der Konzernfunktion Forschung und Technologie der Carl Zeiss AG. Seine Schwerpunkte sind dabei Technologiefelder wie mikroelektromechanische Systeme (MEMS) und photonisch integrierte Schaltkreise (PIC). Diese hat er anwendungsspezifisch entwickelt und in Systemen für die Mikroskopie, medizinische Bildgebung, industrielle Messtechnik und Halbleiterfertigungstechnik demonstriert.

ORGANISATION
Das JENAer Optikkolloquium wird unterstützt von: Carl Zeiss AG, Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena, Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Optik und Feinmechanik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, JENOPTIK AG, Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien e.V. Veranstalter ist OptoNet e.V.