Dream Photonics - bringing light to semiconductor chips - Matthew Mitchell

Dream Photonics is a semiconductor IP company focused on providing Silicon Photonics and Electronics IP and assembly solutions. Dream offers the industry’s most diverse portfolio of multi-foundry IP building blocks that foundries and end-customers license and integrate into their chip. Dream offers the industry’s most prolific assembly solutions, enabling customers to hybrid integrate lasers, optical amplifiers, fibers, and other optical components, from prototyping to high-volume manufacturing. Dream Photonics is located in Vancouver BC and Woodinville WA.
In this seminar I will provide an overview of the services we offer, with a focus on optical packaging and low-loss optical coupling: I will review current methods of optical I/O that are used in industry, and present the approach we are taking at Dream Photonics to help our customers solve their problems from the data communications space to quantum hard problems. Our approach utilizes two-photon lithography to 3D print polymer micro-optics such as photonic wire bonds, and facet-attached microlenses directly on photonic chips, and III-V lasers, enabling flexible, hybrid-integration of disparate material platforms, and photonic devices. This technique enables printing of custom optics for each application/component with 100 nm placement accuracy and ~ 1 μm printing resolution. I will present this technology, and our recent results on demonstrating facet-attached microlenses for fiber-to-chip coupling with multiple silicon photonic foundries with broadband, < 1.5 dB insertion loss, and our envisioned path to the << 1 dB insertion loss, required for quantum applications.