The industry’s most innovative people 2024 Anton Stroganov
Organisation: Ligentec Role: Product Manager
Anton Stroganov’s role bridges the technical and business aspects of advancing high-performance silicon nitride (SiN) integrated photonics. In 2021, Ligentec partnered with XFab,
facilitating the transfer to a 200mm CMOS line and opening a second fab location. Stroganov's efforts focused on harmonising operations at the manufacturing sites for enhanced compatibility and resolving technical challenges for a smooth transition. In recent months, establishing industry-
driven reliability tests for photonic and electronic components has been a priority.
Antonio Teixeira
Organisation: PICadvanced, Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Aveiro, Portugal Role: Founder and CSTO, senior researcher, full professor Based in: Aveiro, Portugal Education: PhD, Telecommunications engineering, University of Aveir
Antonio Teixeira, co-founder and Chief Scientific Technical Officer at PICadvanced, wants to revolutionise the passive optical networks (PON) market. His work aims to streamline the mass production process of integrated photonics, paving the way for its widespread use in active interfaces. One of the standout observations
from Teixeira's latest research is what he describes as sluggish progress of integrated photonics in lithography techniques, which hampers the development of high-precision filtering methods within this domain. Looking ahead, Teixeira's top research
priority is enhancing component resilience in the face of production and assembly tolerances, ensuring robust and reliable integrated photonics devices. He acknowledges the emergence of
transfer printing as a significant photonics technology in the past year. It opens up new avenues for hybridisation scenarios that were previously challenging to achieve. He believes coming challenges are
centred around the slow adoption of incentives to attract mass production fabs to integrated photonics.
Avi Bakal
Organisation: TriEye Role: CEO and Co-Founder
“The automotive sector is the clear frontrunner for photonics growth in the coming year”, says Avi Bakal, the co-founder and CEO of semiconductor company TriEye. “Drivers will experience increased safety, and OEMs can access technology specifically designed for automotive standards.” Bakal is advancing TriEye’s SWIR sensing
technology for automotive applications, specifically for advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles. The firm’s products, including specialised
Based in: Tel-Aviv, Israel
Education: MSc, Applied Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
shortwave infrared (SWIR) sensors and lasers, are designed to significantly enhance vehicular safety, he says. “By providing real-time, high-resolution automotive visibility technology made to see perfectly even in the most adverse weather conditions, we aim to reduce the number of road accidents and save lives.” You can find Bakal on LinkedIn. In
2024, the TriEye team will be attending the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and Photonics West in San Francisco, among others.
Based in: Lausanne, Switzerland
Education: MSc - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
His goal is to drive the industrial adoption of integrated photonics by making it more versatile, accessible, and reliable. This involves contributing to technology development, raising awareness through conferences and webinars, and enhancing Ligentec's platform offering. Stroganov highlights three photonics
technologies in the past year: heterogeneous integration, particularly micro-Transfer Printing (uTP); the emergence of lithium niobate in high-performance integrated photonics; and the rise of reconfigurable photonics and meshed photonic processors.
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