10-11 April 2018, Brussels (Belgium) | PIC International Conference 2018
PIC International 2018 will provide timely, comprehensive coverage of every important sector within the photonics integrated circuits industry.
Sales of PICs are soaring, with their deployment helping to boost the capacity of networks and data centres. To aid this industry, we are strengthening the relationships between the makers and the users of these integrated circuits by organising the 3rd PIC International, a global conference dedicated to this industry.
Attendees at the 3rd PIC International conference will hear industry-leading insiders deliver more than 30 presentations spanning five sectors. This will equip the delegates at this two-day conference with an up-to-date overview of the status of the PIC industry, and provide them with many opportunities to meet other key players within this community.
The presentations are grouped into five key themes which collectively provide complete coverage of the Photonic Integrated Circuits industry.
- Moving the data: PICs for cloud computing and telecoms
- Refining the PIC: achieving the next milestone in performance
- Delivering the goods: advances in PIC manufacturing
- PIC Design, simulation and packaging: a blueprint for future success
- PIC horizons: new and emerging applications for integrated photonics
Sascha Geidel of Fraunhofer ENAS will be at the event to present MOLOKO project for the first time. Sasha will be part of the last session, PIC horizons, with a speech called “Adding the ‘tech’ to biotech – opportunities for photonic integrated circuits“.
Biochemical analytics and diagnostics are pushing forward into areas outside the laboratory and towards mobile and stand-alone field applications. Efficient diagnostic devices are easy to use, lightweight and provide reliable results. The focus of applied research is to validate the efficient selection of technologies and enable their smooth integration into small packages. Photonic integrated circuits have a key role to play in driving performance and contributing to a compact final device, and — to highlight these elements — this talk presents the transformation of a PIC into a biosensor. To allow automated biochemical process execution, the PIC is combined with a fluidic circuit. The system application targets explanatory exploration missions in terms of a wet chemical payload – for example, on board a Mars-rover. Nevertheless, the development procedure can also be transferred to other decentralized diagnostic applications on earth.
If you are interested in this event, take a look at the official website: www.picinternational.net/home