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Meint Smit is a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), where he leads the Photonic Integration group at the COBRA Research Institute. Currently, his research focuses on Generic Integration Technology. Unlike today’s microelectronics, technology development in photonics is strongly application-specific: for almost every application a novel technology is developed, which makes the entry costs very high. This has prevented a breakthrough of Photonic Integration. In response to this, Smit pioneered the use of the microelectronics methodology in photonics, and contributed to the launch of open-access integration technology platforms for InP and Silicon Photonics.
A key achievement has been placing lasers onto a piece of Silicon, relying on Indium Phosphide to generate light directly in the chip. Meint’s group are developing methods to build full photonic circuits in a thin Indium Phosphide layer on top of a silicon wafer containing the driver, receiver and control electronics, to realise very short and efficient connections.
Academic background
Meint Smit graduated in Electrical Engineering at Delft University of Technology in 1974, and received his PhD in 1991 (with honors). In 1976, he joined Delft University of Technology. Five years later, he switched to optical communications and the research field of Integrated Optics. Meint became leader of the Photonic Integrated Circuits group of the Delft University in 1994.
Meint is the inventor of the Arrayed Waveguide Grating for which he received a LEOS Technical Achievement award in 1997. A year later he was appointed Full Professor and his group, together with the groups of prof. Wolter and prof. Khoe (COBRA, TU/e) received a €40m research grant to establish a National Research Center on Photonics. In 2002 he and his group moved to TU/e. In 2002 he was appointed LEOS Fellow for contributions to the field of Opto-Electronic Integration. He is leading the InP platform (JePPIX) in which Europe’s key players in InP technology cooperatie on two major European projects (EuroPIC and PARADIGM). He has held many invited and keynote presentations and led a number of major European projects.
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Projects 2014 2023
- 1 Active
Zwaartekracht ECO Research Centre for Integrated Nanophotonics
Koonen, T., van Zantvoort, J., Kurtic - Brajic, M., Kurtic - Brajic, M., Smit, M., Croes, S., Cao, Z., Mohammed, M., Zhang, X., Trinidad, A., van der Heide, S., Mamun, M. & Shi, B.
1/01/14 → 31/12/23
Project: Research direct
Research Output 1977 2019
1.3 Integration of photonics and electronics
Smit, M., Williams, K. & van der Tol, J., 6 Mar 2019, 2019 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, ISSCC 2019. Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 29-34 6 p. 8662321Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
Photonics
Electronic equipment
Indium phosphide
Silicon
Light amplifiers
A 6 x 30 Gb/s tunable transmitter PIC with low RF crosstalk from an open-access InP foundry
Yao, W., Smalbrugge, B., Smit, M., Williams, K. & Wale, M., May 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 25, 5, 10 p., 6100510Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Indium phosphide
foundries
Laser tuning
Bragg gratings
Foundries
Nanophotonic membrane platform for integrated active devices and circuits
Pogoretskiy, V., 4 Apr 2019, Eindhoeven: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. 100 p.Research output: Thesis › Phd Thesis 1 (Research TU/e / Graduation TU/e) › Academic
Open Access
File
Past, present, and future of InP-based photonic integration
Smit, M., Williams, K. & van der Tol, J., 30 May 2019, In : APL Photonics. 4, 5, 10 p., 050901Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
File
Indium phosphide
indium phosphides
Photonics
photonics
platforms
A novel broadband electro-absorption modulator based on bandfilling in n-InGaAs: design and simulations
van Engelen, J. P., Shen, L., Roelkens, G. C., Jiao, Y., Smit, M. K. & van der Tol, J. J. G. M., 2018, In : IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 24, 1, 8 p., 3300108Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
File
Modulators
modulators
broadband
simulation
footprints
Prizes
NOvel Large-scale InP-Membrane based Integration Technology & Science
Meint Smit (Recipient), 2011
Recognition: ERC › Advanced › Scientific
Photonics
Membranes
Silicon
Photonic integration technology
Electronic equipment
Activities 2003 2007
- 3 Workshop, seminar, course or exhibition
ePIXnet Workshop on Access, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
Meint Smit (Organiser)26 Mar 2007
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Workshop, seminar, course or exhibition › Scientific
ePIXnet Workshop on Access
Meint Smit (Organiser)26 Mar 2007
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Workshop, seminar, course or exhibition › Scientific
29th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2003)
Meint Smit (Organiser)20 Sep 2003
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Workshop, seminar, course or exhibition › Scientific
Press / Media
Insights from European CEOs: EPIC interviews former CEO, VLC Photonics
22/05/19
1 item of media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Photonics Integrated Circuit International Award Winners Announced
10/03/17
1 item of media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Photonics for a next-generation super-chips – and a celebration of the work of Meint Smit
8/03/17
1 item of media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Half the awards at international photonics conference go to Eindhoven
8/03/17
1 item of media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Half the awards at the international photonics conference go to Eindhoven
7/03/17
2 items of media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Student theses
Characterisation of ohmic contacts on n-InP and p-InGaAs based materials
Author: van Maasakkers, M., 28 Feb 2003Supervisor: Karouta, F. (Supervisor 1) & Smit, M. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
File
Concept and design of MMI reflectors of MMI reflectors with free selection of reflection to transmission ratio
Author: Kleijn, E., 2010Supervisor: Smit, M. (Supervisor 1)
Student thesis: Master
Design of 1D photonic crystal mirrors
Author: van Rijn, M., 30 Apr 2016Supervisor: Smit, M. (Supervisor 1) & van der Heijden, R. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
Large-signal HEMT model : modeling and parameter extraction
Author: Ljevar, B., 30 Jun 2002Supervisor: Smit, M. (Supervisor 1)
Student thesis: Master
File
Tolerant and high performance 3x3 and 4x4 multimode interference couplers
Author: Van Vliet, E. M., 31 Oct 2014Supervisor: Smit, M. (Supervisor 1), Leijtens, X. (Supervisor 2) & Pustakhod, D. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master