Photonic Devices Background Information

Within the ACCORD Project (Advanced Components Cooperative for Optoelectronics Research and Development) a pre-competitive photonic device means any pre-competitive component, material, device, circuit, module, and associated documentation.

The provided device should be truly pre-commercial. It should not be an old component in a new application. It should not be available for sale anywhere in the world. On the other hand the component should be a functioning prototype that can be reproduced at least in small numbers.
 

Examples of prototype components could be, for instance:

• A material, like an epitaxial wafer, an optical element, a non-linear optical crystal;
• A component like a laser, a filter, a LED, a detector, a modulator, etc;
• A module with embedded photonic components.

We will also consider prototypes in which commercially-available photonic components are being used to implement entire new kind of application.