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The Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Photonic Integration and Advanced Data Storage (PIADS) is a partnership between the Irish Photonic Integration Centre, Queen’s University Belfast and University of Glasgow which aims to tackle some of the challenges created by the increasing quantities of data generated by today’s society.

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The Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Photonic Integration and Advanced Data Storage is a PhD programme partnership between the Irish Photonics Integration Centre, Queen’s University Belfast and University of Glasgow which aims to tackle some of the challenges created by the increasing quantities of data generated by today’s society.

PIADS is inspired by a unique technological opportunity – the intersection of photonic integration and data storage using Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR). HAMR is the first truly mass market application for photonic integration, with projected volumes of up to 2 billion data recording heads per annum. Delivering photonic integration for HAMR is expected to open a multitude of new applications and markets that require low-cost integrated photonic solutions. These applications include, augmented/virtual reality systems, fibre-optic communication systems for the home and data centres, smart image-guided surgical instruments and miniature point-of-care and wearable medical diagnostic systems, all of which are currently being developed within the centre’s research programmes. The development of these technologies will be relevant to a wide spectrum of end-users – from telecommunications to biophotonics, in which optical technologies are applied to living organisms and health care.

Established in 2014 with substantial investment from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the PIADS CDT programme will help to address a skills shortage in the photonics industry by educating fifty future scientists and engineers over the next eight years.

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Overview

The objective of the PIADS CDT is to train a new generation of researchers who are equipped to carry out world-leading R&D in photonics.

The CDT offers PhD students a cutting-edge research environment to undertake a diverse and exciting range of topical doctoral research projects which cut across physics, materials and electrical and optical engineering through to applications as diverse as data storage and biosciences.

The training programme provides a framework for student cohorts to be educated & trained together , to work across multiple centres and to learn from industry best practice, developing specialist technical research skills alongside innovation and business skills.

Snapshot of our 2023 activities

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2023 cohort

Armando Trapala PhD Project: Hybrid integration of site-controlled (In)GaAs quantum dot photonic platforms for quantum computation IPIC Partner Host Institute: Tyndall National Institute	Annisa Sugiarti PhD Project: Intelligent image analytics for in-vivo micro camera applications in biophotonics IPIC Partner Host Institute: Tyndall National Institute	Hongliang Li PhD Project: Advanced Digital Signal Processing Enabling Flexible Coherent PON towards 200G/λ and Beyond IPIC Partner Host Institute: Tyndall National Institute

Kaynat Alvi PhD Project: Design of O-Band electro-absorption modulators based on new SiGe structures IPIC Partner Host Institute: Munster Technological University	Lin Lyu PhD Project: Nanocrystal Based Micro-LED Array Via Heterogenous Integration (NC-MicroLED) IPIC Partner Host Institute: University of Limerick	Kseniia Mamaeva PhD Project: Single photon nanoemitter based on a quantum dot – plasmonic resonator IPIC Partner Host Institute: Trinity College Dublin

Rory Fox PhD Project: Next-Gen Intelligent, Compact Coherent-OTDR for Real-Time Distributed Acoustic Sensing over Existing Fibre Links IPIC Partner Host Institute: Tyndall National Institute	Jordan Walsh PhD Project: Laser dynamics in integrated photonics using quantum well intermixing IPIC Partner Host Institute: Tyndall National Institute

2022 cohort

Risov Das

PhD Project:
On chip non-reciprocal magneto-optic based optical devices realised by transfer printing

IPIC Partner Host Institute:
Tyndall National Institute

Suraj Kumar Kothuri

PhD Project:
Integrated Photonics Time of Flight tools for next generation wearable biomedical applications

IPIC Partner Host Institute:
Tyndall National Institute

2021 cohort

Yeasir Arafat PhD Project: Photonics sensing platform using silicon waveguides at long wavelengths IPIC Partner Host Institute: Tyndall National Institute	Nidhya Matthew PhD Project: Compact Multi-Spectral Imaging for surgical guidance and diagnostics IPIC Partner Host Institute: Tyndall National Institute	Conor Russell PhD Project: Self-Homodyne Coherent 100G-Class PON IPIC Partner Host Institute: Tyndall National Institute

Salvador Medina PhD Project: Heterogeneous integration onto a polymer platform for quantum photonics IPIC Partner Host Institute: Tyndall National Institute	Saif Wakeel PhD Project: Development of interposers for integrated photonic devices IPIC Partner Host Institute: Tyndall National Institute	Owen Moynihan PhD Project: High bandwidth III-V modulators on silicon photonic integrated circuits IPIC Partner Host Institute: Tyndall National Institute

2020 cohort

James McCloskey PhD Project: Non-classical light emission from III-N quantum dots IPIC Partner Host Institute: Tyndall National Institute	Rhianne Curley PhD Project: Precision targeted tumor responsive fluorophores: theranostic probes for real time biomarker sensing and for intraoperative fluorescence guided surgery IPIC Partner Host Institute: Dublin City University	Fariba Jamali PhD Project: Burst Mode Transmission for Coherent PONs IPIC Partner Host Institute: Tyndall National Institute

Robert Bernson PhD Project: Design and Fabrication of Low-Cost Glass Substrates for Wafer-Level PIC Packaging IPIC Partner Host Institute: Tyndall National Institute	Samira Jastan PhD Project: Narrow linewidth Blue Laser systems IPIC Partner Host Institute: Munster Technological University	Shengtai Shi PhD Project: High speed InP photonics compatible with micro-transfer printing IPIC Partner Host Institute: Tyndall National Institute

Parnika Gupta PhD Project: IPIC Partner Host Institute: Tyndall National Institute