PRESENTATION
Thin film lithium niobate: the ideal material for scalable high-performance photonic components and PICs
Photonic-based devices are advancing rapidly for quantum technologies like computers, information processors, communication devices, and sensors. This talk highlights Thin Film Lithium Niobate on Insulator (TFLN) as an ideal material system for these applications. We’ll present our progress in fabricating and characterizing TFLN devices and discuss the development of a foundry for processing transition metal ferroelectric materials like TFLN. These materials show great promise in photonic telecommunications and quantum computing, and we’ll review our work toward establishing a commercial foundry for their production.
Pouya Dianat
Quantum Computing
Pouya Dianat is the Director of PICs and Foundry Services at QCI Foundry, leading business strategy and product development focused on Thin-Film Lithium Niobate technology for the photonics market. Prior to QCI, he was a market expert and Technical Director at OPTICA, specializing in PIC and Quantum technologies, and a Business Development Manager at Luminar Technologies in the automotive LIDAR sector. With over a decade of experience in business development and commercializing advanced photonics, he earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University in 2015 and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University.