Iñigo Artundo
CEO
VLC Photonics
Received the M.Sc. in Telecom Engineering at the Universidad Pública de Navarra (Pamplona, Spain) in 2005, and received his Ph.D. on Applied Physics and Photonics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium) in 2009. He holds specializations in Business Financing, Commercial Management and Research, and Strategic Marketing. He has been involved in several national and European research projects and networks of excellence focused on reconfigurable optical interconnects, development of micro-optic devices and photonic integrated circuits, and on flexible access and in-building fiber network architectures. Since 2011 he has been involved in VLC Photonics, and he is currently the CEO. He has worked as a reviewer for several scientific journals and national funding agencies, including being a member of the high-level steering committee set up by the European Commission for the establishment of the Quantum Technologies Flagship program.
Presentations
Merging Photonic Design and Test Towards Scalable Product Development
As data center transceivers, LIDAR, quantum systems and biosensors are commencing to scale up, several challenges are emerging now in their design and testing. Building reliable component models on top of mature foundry processes is key, and that requires for extensive functional characterization and process validation, both at wafer and die level. Another key aspect when moving forward in the product development phases is the need for reliability testing, which is proving to be more difficult in PICs than in discrete optical components.