Dutch and Taiwanese Partnerships Advance Photonic Systems for High-Speed Communications and Quantum Computing
PhotonDelta has announced four collaborative projects between Dutch photonic chip specialists and Taiwanese semiconductor and electronics organizations. These partnerships, selected through the Netherlands–Taiwan TechBridge program, aim to address integration and manufacturing challenges in bringing photonic technologies to commercial systems. The projects cover optical communications, wireless infrastructure, quantum computing, and photonic chip connections. For instance, the HEROIC project involves Formerica OE and Hon Hai Research Institute (Taiwan) with SMART Photonics and Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands) to develop a 3.2 terabits per second optical transceiver module, utilizing heterogeneous integration, flip-chip technology, and immersion cooling. Another project, MAP-Connect, focuses on developing a 40-channel polarization-maintaining fiber-array connection for photonic integrated circuits, emphasizing low optical loss and manufacturing repeatability. The PhoDAS project will investig...
