BBOI

Breaking the Barrier on Optical Integration

Coordinatore	POLITECNICO DI MILANO    more  Organization address address: Via Ponzio 34/5 city: Milano postcode: 20133 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Fabio Cognome: Conti Email: send email Telefono: 390224000000 Fax: 390224000000
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Italy [IT]
Totale costo	2˙232˙896 €
EC contributo	1˙699˙922 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Code Call	FP7-ICT-2013-C
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-09-01   -   2016-08-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	POLITECNICO DI MILANO  Organization address address: Via Ponzio 34/5 city: Milano postcode: 20133 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Fabio Cognome: Conti Email: send email Telefono: 390224000000 Fax: 390224000000	IT (Milano)	coordinator	0.00
2	TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY  Organization address address: TECHNION CITY - SENATE BUILDING city: HAIFA postcode: 32000 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Lavan Cognome: Jack Email: send email Telefono: +972 4 829 3097	IL (HAIFA)	participant	0.00
3	UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL  Organization address address: SENATE HOUSE, TYNDALL AVENUE city: BRISTOL postcode: BS8 1TH contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Audrey Cognome: Michael Email: send email Telefono: +44 117 3317371 Fax: +44 117 9250900	UK (BRISTOL)	participant	0.00
4	UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW  Organization address address: University Avenue city: GLASGOW postcode: G12 8QQ contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Joe Cognome: Galloway Email: send email Telefono: 441413000000	UK (GLASGOW)	participant	0.00
5	WESTFAELISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAET MUENSTER  Organization address address: SCHLOSSPLATZ city: MUENSTER postcode: 48149 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Hans-Dieter Cognome: Wiemhöfer Email: send email Telefono: +49 251 8333115 Fax: +49 251 8336705	DE (MUENSTER)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

Photonic technologies enable today to generate, manipulate and detect photons by means of miniaturized devices integrated onto the same optical chip. However, compared to electronics, photonics still lacks essential tools enabling the aggregation of hundreds of functionalities into large scale circuits, this hindering its full exploitation in many applicative domains. The BBOI project aims to break this limitation, boosting the complexity of photonic architectures well beyond the state of the art, but without increasing power consumption in proportion.nnA full-optioned multifunctional silicon photonic platform will be developed integrating on board novel sensor and actuator technologies for a reliable real-time monitoring, tuning and reconfiguration of the circuit behaviour. Lighpaths will be inspected in strategic points of the circuit through novel non-perturbative probes capable to sense the light inside optical waveguides without wasting any single photon. Photon routing will be achieved by using power-saving actuators exploiting resistive switching materials used in electronic non-volatile memories, but never explored in the optical domain. The vast technology equipment of the BBOI platform will be harnessed and controlled by a never conceptualized algorithmic intelligence, enabling a multitude of devices to be concurrently steered to the desired working point.nnBBOI success will make photonics to penetrate deeply in various ICT areas where conventional technologies are approaching their performance limits. For instance, the huge scaling of information transmitted and routed through data centres and super computing architectures is pushing multi-core electronic parallelization to collide against unsustainable power consumption. Large scale photonic circuits will also enable demonstrations of quantum processors, solving an important class of problems that are more efficiently solved using quantum processors than even the fastest class of modern supercomputer.