Photonic integrated circuits for advanced sensing

用于先进传感的光子集成电路

• 批准号: RGPIN-2020-06382
• 负责人: Shi, Wei
• 金额: $ 4.01万
• 依托单位: Université Laval
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=754145
• 关键词: Photonic; integrated; circuits; advanced; sensing

The development of new sensor technologies are crucial for Canada from the environmental and socioeconomic points of view. The North faces the great challenge of climate change, while under-standing and monitoring its impact is severely limited by energy constraints. Canada has 500,000active oil wells and 1,000,000 kilometres of pipelines for gathering and distributing oil and gas. The high sensitivity and immunity to electromagnetic interference make optical sensors ideally suited to energy transportation and distributed manufacturing for hazard control, quality assessment, and low-carbon-emission processing. Scientific advances probing spectral and polarization properties of photons led to cutting-edge optical sensing techniques. However, their application has been confounded by the lack of techniques amenable for economical mass-production. This research aims to solve this issue. This research program is proposed to advance silicon photopic integrated circuits for high-performance, chip-scale optical sensors. Silicon photonics is a disruptive technology that promises to cram more complexity on a single chip while drastically reducing energy consumption, footprint and cost of optical communications and sensor systems. In addition, silicon photonic chips can be readily integrated with advanced electronics using established semiconductor processes, making the technology immensely appealing in a vast number of applications. The outcomes of our research will enable unprecedented coverage of the multi-dimensional characteristics of light (e.g., polarization, phase, frequency, and intensity) on a tiny chip, which will be instrumental to possible breakthroughs in the fields of environmental monitoring, biomedical diagnosis, and remote sensing. The impact to Canadians will be seen through transformative applications of ultra-efficient, ultra-small, and ultra-affordable optical sensors enabled by this research.

从环境和社会经济的角度来看，新传感器技术的开发对加拿大至关重要。北方面临着气候变化的巨大挑战，而了解和监测其影响却受到能源限制的严重限制。加拿大拥有 50 万口活跃油井和 1,000,000 公里的管道用于收集和分配石油和天然气。高灵敏度和抗电磁干扰能力使光学传感器非常适合能源运输和分布式制造，用于危险控制、质量评估和低碳排放处理。探测光子光谱和偏振特性的科学进步催生了尖端的光学传感技术。然而，由于缺乏适合经济大规模生产的技术，它们的应用受到了困扰。本研究旨在解决这个问题。 该研究计划旨在推进用于高性能芯片级光学传感器的硅光电集成电路。硅光子学是一项颠覆性技术，有望在单个芯片上增加更多复杂性，同时大幅降低光通信和传感器系统的能耗、占地面积和成本。此外，硅光子芯片可以使用现有的半导体工艺轻松地与先进电子器件集成，使得该技术在大量应用中极具吸引力。我们的研究成果将能够在微小芯片上前所未有地覆盖光的多维特征（例如偏振、相位、频率和强度），这将有助于环境监测、生物医学诊断等领域的突破。和遥感。通过这项研究实现的超高效、超小型和超经济的光学传感器的变革性应用，可以看到对加拿大人的影响。