AIM Photonics at DMC 2022
Join us at the Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC) 2022 in Tampa, Florida on December 5-8. We’ll be hosting a live demo and presenting technical papers highlighting how AIM Photonics’ R&D is enabling advanced integrated photonics applications for both military and commercial use.
In addition, members of our technical staff will be on hand at our exhibit booth to answer questions and show how AIM Photonics is growing the integrated photonics ecosystem in the U.S. to help secure our country’s national defense and economic priorities.
Spotlight: Solid-State Optical Phased Array LiDAR Demonstration
Chris V. Poulton, Analog Photonics
Join us for this live demo as we present a self-contained LiDAR module that enables 3D coherent light detection and ranging with simultaneous range and velocity detection. This unit represents the most advanced OPA-based LiDAR to date, and shows the broad capability and increasing maturity of the technology. Fabricated on 300 mm silicon wafers, it is uniquely situated as a leading low-cost integrated coherent LiDAR solution.
DATE/TIME: Tuesday, December 6 • 12:40 PM
LOCATION: East Exhibit Hall, 3rd Floor
AIM Photonics SiN Photonic Integrated Circuit PIC Foundry Service
Dr. Nick Fahrenkopf, AIM Photonics
In this presentation, Photonics Engineering Manager Nick Fahrenkopf will discuss how AIM Photonics, in collaboration with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, has developed and matured a domestic SiN-only PIC MPW service, which offers researchers the ability to design, fabricate, and test prototypes for defense applications at a fraction of the cost of a dedicated run at other fabs.
DATE/TIME: Thursday, December 8 • 11:15 AM
LOCATION: Breakout Rooms 118-125, 1st Floor
Disposable Photonics for Inexpensive and Simple Multiplex Biosensing
Dr. Benjamin Miller, University of Rochester Medical Center
In this presentation, Dr. Benjamin Miller, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, will discuss his work to build photonic biosensors manufacturable at scale, easy to use, and fast. The project uses the AIM Photonics foundry to develop a disposable photonics sensor platform in which a grain-of-rice-sized sensor PIC is integrated with a plastic passive microfluidic card. Packaging the sensor in this manner enables delivery of a human sample to the sensor without external pumps or power, and reduces cost by minimizing the size of the sensor chip itself.
DATE/TIME: Thursday, December 8 • 10:00 AM
LOCATION: Breakout Rooms 118-125, 1st Floor
AIM Photonics Design Enablement: Promoting Silicon Photonics Ecosystem in the U.S.
Dr. Amit Dikshit, AIM Photonics (presented by N.Fahrenkopf)
In this poster presentation, Design Enablement Manager Amit Dikshit shows the methodology and techniques for building an end-to-end design enablement platform from component design to a process design kit (PDK) for silicon photonics-based photonic integrated circuit (PIC) design.
DATE/TIME: Monday, December 5 and Tuesday December 6 • 5:00 - 7:30 PM
LOCATION: East Exhibit Hall, 3rd Floor
Visit our Exhibit Booth #626
Stop by and learn how AIM Photonics is advancing this fundamental technology that enables some of our nation’s most critical defense applications including bio, chemical and environmental sensors; LiDAR; secure positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT); and quantum computing, just to name a few.
DATE/TIME: Monday-Wednesday • December 5-7
LOCATION: East Exhibit Hall, 3rd Floor