The 2025 PIC Concepts Training is an on-site event, taking place at the Academic Society (Parklaan 93, Eindhoven) on March 17th and 18th.

To register, please fill in THIS FORM. The final registration deadline is Monday, February 17, unless the limit of participants (approx. 40) is reached before that.

This training program was developed by extracting key modules from the annual 2-week PIC Design Course which were of particular interest for industry professionals. The program gives a conceptual insight into waveguide photonics, optical modes, interference devices, amplifiers, lasers, and modulators. Use cases for creating and analysing circuits with these combinations of building blocks are discussed, as well as assembly and packaging approaches.

The JePPIX PIC Concepts Training is part of the European Photonics Academy organized by PhotonHub Europe.

Participants are required to bring:
– Paper and pen for notes (or keep it digital on your laptop)
– A positive attitude!

Learning Objectives

After the course, participants will be familiar with the full-design-flow perspective connecting physical principles to practical designs and layouts used in photonic integrated circuits. They will have acquired the vocabulary to discuss design choices. Moreover, they will have gained an awareness of some of the most important constraints in design due to packaging, design know-how, fabrication tolerances, characterization techniques and materials properties.

Required prior knowledge

Participants are assumed to have a Bachelor, Masters or equivalent industry experience in a scientific or engineering field. They are already familiar with the concepts of waveguides, the properties of light such as amplitude, phase, wavelength and polarization. Additionally, they are familiar with the operating principles of diodes and the concept of electronic bands for describing semiconductor devices. Typical course participants did not follow our 2-week PIC Design Course (yet), or perhaps feel it is too detailed for their objective.