For research in primarily the application areas of optical communications, sensing & imaging, CMC provides the following products and services:
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- Design tools for physical layout and verification of optical components
- Industry-class prototype manufacturing services, provided in partnership with the Canadian Photonics Fabrication Center (CPFC). This includes:
- InP- and GaAs-based devices (epitaxy, process & back end)
- Slica on silicon (low index contrast process).
- Silicon on insulator
(high index contrast process)
- A broad range of test equipment, including capability for testing unpackaged devices through the Advanced Photonic Systems
Lab of the National Microelectronics
and Photonics Testing
(e.g., the
Anritsu 43.5 Gbit/s
Bit Error Ratio Tester)
- Engineering support
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Dr. Amr Helmy, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, is developing new optoelectronic chips that could enable the design of
more mobile and inexpensive lasers for a wide range of applications in life sciences, information and communications technologies and the environment. |
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