The Lab

WinPhoS group is equipped with suitable software and equipment for the conduction of research through simulation and experimental characterization of Photonic based Integrated Circuits, Systems and Networks. Each division within the group is staffed by highly skilled personnel with varying experience ranging between Senior Researcher and MSc Students. For the accommodation of the different research areas, WinPhos is constantly investing in the expansion and upgrade of existing infrastructure with the inclusion of new tools that enable more in depth analysis of optical and electrical signals. The lab is able to handle packaged and non-packaged optoelectronic chips and 5G equipment.

To date WinPhoS is equipped with the following equipment:

Optical & Experimental Infrastructure:

Testbed for characterization of circuits and chips for optical interconnects at up to 100GHz
Testbed for High Capacity Coherent transmission at up to 60 Gbaud
Probe station with photonic VNA for @ up to 50GHz S-parameter extraction
Automated probe station for passive chip characterization
Wire bonder for packaging of chips
FPGA boards featuring high speed transceivers (electrical & optical (SFP+, QSFP28,…) up to 100Gbps
Testbed for Multi-Radio Access Technology (multi-RAT)
mmWave terminals operating in the 28/60/80/110 GHz (Ka-/V-/E-/W-) bands

Software

Lumerical for electromagnetic simulations
VPI for system level setups
Zemax for free space setups
Synopsis and Nazca software for GDSII design
Network performance analysis simulators for large scale Data Center and HPC networks based on Omnet++ platform