Opal

The project goals were:

• Development of know-how on market valuable integrated photonics sensing application
• Improvement of CR processing capabilities at SAL
• Definition of a PIC platform for circuit integration and to perform simulation, design and circuit layout in-house
• Investigation of approaches for optical and electronics co-packaging

As part of the project, the first optical phased array integrated at SAL for LiDAR applications was developed. This demonstrated a SiN-based OPA for the first time, achieving state-of-the-art optical performance.