OIDA Workshop on Manufacturing and Building the Supply Chain for Integrated Photonics

OIDA Workshop Agenda*

3 March 2019

*times are subject to change
 

Featured Presentations

Session 1: Keynotes: Insights on Manufacturing Supply Chain

An efficient supply chain is among the foremost challenges for a company moving from initial product design and prototyping to volume manufacture. Current photonic supply chains tend to be highly-fragmented, greatly limiting the ability of many companies to bring their new products to market. These keynote presentations bring in-depth perspectives on existing photonic supply chains and challenges encountered to develop and manufacture products, from design and chip fabrication, through to packaging and test. Speakers will provide details of their experience in establishing supply chains and what essential factors are required to ensure advanced photonic products can be brought to market in a fast and cost-effective way.

MODERATOR: Daniel Kilper, CIAN, University of Arizona

PRESENTATIONS INCLUDE:

Session 2: Integrated Photonics Supply Chains

Semiconductor manufacturing is commonly viewed as a set of distinct and linear steps: design, chip fabrication, packaging, and test (including reliability testing).  These steps may be managed as an entirely internal operation, or as a supply chain of internal and contracted operations.  How do companies make choices to keep operations internally or outsource it to contractors?  How does the manufacturer keep the supply chain coherent if it’s divided among different locations and vendors yet so interdependent?  How do you find and convince partners to work with your company?  This panel will present perspectives from different parts of the supply chain. 

MODERATOR: Peter O'Brien, European Photonics Packaging Pilot Line (PIXAPP) & Tyndall Institute

SPEAKERS:

Iñigo Artundo, VLC Photonics
Gloria Höfler, Infinera 
Stefan Preble, Rochester Institute of Technology
Shane Pudvah, Tokyo Electron

Session 3: Emerging Trends in PIC Manufacturing

The technology for manufacturing integrated photonics continues to evolve, as do market opportunities.  What are some of the technologies that could change the capabilities or demands from integrated photonics manufacturers?  This panel will present some examples and consider the trends that may have the most impact on integrated photonics manufacturing and the supply chains that support it.

MODERATOR: Thomas Brown, University of Rochester

SPEAKERS:

This panel will bring perspectives from speakers as well as the audience for a more expansive discussion of the realities of establishing a supply chain to manufacture integrated photonics, and what’s needed to resolve the issues surrounding it today, particularly from the view of the small company.  The discussion will draw from earlier in the day as well as new questions.  Has the integrated photonics ecosystem showed progress from a few years ago?  What can we expect going forward and how do we make it happen?

MODERATOR: Madeleine Glick, Columbia University

SPEAKERS:

Session 5: Workshop Wrap-up

This final session of the day will solicit perspectives from speakers and attendees on the key takeaways of the day.  

MODERATOR: Tom Hausken, The Optical Society