PIXAPP, the photonics packaging Pilot Line - from initial prototypes to scaling to volume’

Peter O'Brien

PIXAPP

Prof. Peter O’Brien is Director of the PIXAPP Photonics Packaging Pilot Line and head of the Photonics Packaging Group at the Tyndall Institute. He is also a lead partner in the InP Pilot Line (InPulse), SiN-PIC Pilot Line (PIX4LIFE) and is a member of ACTPHAST TCT team, JEPPIX and ePIXfab steering committees. His group develops photonic microsystems for high-speed fiber optic communication, medical devices and sensing applications. He previously founded a start-up company manufacturing specialty photonic system for bio-imaging, which he sold in 2009.