Present and future of micro-transfer printing for heterogeneous photonic integrated circuits
Günther Roelkens, Jing Zhang, Laurens Bogaert, Emadreza Soltanian, Maximilien Billet, Ali Uzun, Biwei Pan, Yang Liu, Evangelia Delli, Dongbo Wang, Valeria Bonito Oliva, L.T. Tran, Xin Guo, He Li, Senbiao Qin, Konstantinos Akritidis, Ye Chen, Yu Xue, Margot Niels, Dennis Maes, Max Kiewiet, Tom Reep, Tom Vanackere, Tom Vandekerckhove, Isaac Luntadila Lufungula, Jasper De Witte, Luis Reis, Stijn Poelman, Ying Tan, Hong Deng, Wim Bogaerts, Geert Morthier, Dries Van Thourhout, Bart Kuyken
Abstract
We present the current state of the art in micro-transfer printing for heterogeneously integrated silicon photonic integrated circuits. The versatility of the technology is highlighted, as is the way ahead to make this technology a key enabler for next-generation photonic systems-on-chip.