PICs4All (Photonic Integrated Circuits Accessible to Everyone) is a Coordination and Support Action from the EU H2020 ICT programme whose purpose is to bring closer to you the Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) technology assisting you to get access to advanced fabrication facilities for PICs.

PICs4All aims at low-cost development of ASPICs (Application Specific PIC) using the generic foundry model, and rapid prototyping via industrial Multi-Project Wafer runs. To this end, PICs4All brings together the PIC-value chain of Europe’s key players in the field of photonic integration, including manufacturing and packaging partners, photonic CAD software partners, R&D labs and Photonic IC design houses.

PICs4All has set up an European Network of experts in photonics constituted by 9 Application Support Centres (ASC) distributed around Europe whose main task is to stimulate the development of novel applications based on Photonic ICs for various application fields, enhance cooperation between universities, clusters, industry, and research centres, and the most important, to enable access to the PIC technology.

PICs4All aims to:
1. Increase the impact of photonics and enable access to the advanced photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technologies for academia, research institutes, SMEs and larger companies. 
2. Establish a European network of Application Support Centers (ASCs) in the field of PIC technology. 
3. Lower the barrier for applying advanced PICs, and thus to increase the awareness of the existence of the unique facility provided by JePPIX (InP and TriPleX PIC design, manufacturing, testing and packaging).

PICs4All objectives:
1. To establish eight photonic Application Support Centres geographically well distributed over Europe. 
2. To actively scout opportunities for the use of PICs in new and existing applications. 
3. To promote the use of the photonics technology platforms and to increase the load of the foundries.
4. Strengthening Europe’s industrial lead in the business of integrated photonics applications and establish a significant step forward in Europe’s market competitiveness in using state-of-the art InP and TriPleX technologies.
5. Bringing together academia to explore photonics and promote its critical importance.

PICs4All colaborates with other CSAs:
In addition, PICs4ALL colaborates with ACTPHAST (Access CenTer for PHotonics innovAtion Solutions and Technology Support) which is a unique “one-stop-shop” for supporting photonics innovation by European companies, which is financially supported by the European Commission under the FP7 framework (Grant Agreement No. 619205).

The access to top-level experts and leading photonics technology platforms provided by the ACTPHAST consortium is realized through focused innovation projects executed in relatively short timeframes (typically 6-9 months) with a critical mass of suitably qualified companies with high potential product concepts. 

The ACTPHAST program is particularly suited to the needs of small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) who do not have the financial resources to invest in in-house R&D expertise and state-of-the-art technologies, nor to undertake risky innovation projects. ACTPHAST support is 100% subsidized for projects undertaken with SMEs. It is designed to provide open access to photonics innovation support for all European companies who meet the eligibility criteria. If you want to be contacted by ACTPHAST you can register your interest by filling the following form.

PICS4ALL CONSORTIUM

The PICs4All consortium consists of 9 academic research institutes with a good regional balance throughout Europe, enabling Application Support Centres in Germany, United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Spain, Poland, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands. It also includes the EPIC association located in France and Berenschot in the Netherlands.

Members of the consortium:

1. Eindhoven University of Technology
2. University of Cambridge
3. Universitat Politècnica de València
4. Politecnico di Milano
5. Warsaw University of Technology
6. Technische Universität Berlin
7. Aarhus University
8. Telecom ParisTech
9. National Technical University of Athens
10. European Photonics Industry Consortium
11. Berenschot