Contract Research & Development
 
Morton Photonics is working with various government agencies, together with clients and collaborators, to develop R&D programs in areas ranging from basic device physics and device design up through sub-system and system level manufacture and testing. Areas of interest: Nanophotonic Devices - Micro-resonator and wavelength scale devices and sub-systems - Quantum-dot lasers and amplifiers - Silicon photonics Photonic Integration - Large scale monolithic photonic integration - WDM Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for high capacity optical communications - Hybrid integration and next generation photonic packaging technologies - Photonic subsystem integration: System on a chip RF Photonics - RF photonic links and signal processing - ‘Optical Radio’ and complex modulation formats - Ultra-High-Bandwidth semiconductor lasers and photonic devices - Tough Photonics: Semiconductor lasers for harsh environments - Complex photonic subsystems Dynamic Optical Networks - Next generation optical network architectures - Photonic integration for cost reduced communication networks - Dynamically tunable optical networks through wavelength tuning and optical switching Biophotonics - High-power, short-pulse and broad-bandwidth laser sources for biomedical imaging - Quantum-dot based semiconductor devices for biophotonic applications - Low-cost sub-systems to enable widespread adoption of biophotonics technologies Morton Photonics uses its broad experience from device physics up to system level applications to better understand the requirements for new photonic technologies and how they can be best utilized in next generation systems.