Monolithic Ge-on-Si Lasers, MIT Microphotonics Center, 2010

About the MIT Microphotonics Center

The Microphotonics Center (MphC) is a research community dedicated to optimizing interdisciplinary academic and industrial collaboration to advance basic science and pre-competitive technology in areas relevant to applied microphotonics. The Microphotonics Center engenders R&D cross-fertilization leading to innovation in applied microphotonics. Our vision is a future where the microphotonics platform enables enhanced information access, bandwidth, reliability, and complexity that extends the advance of silicon IC technology.

The Microphotonics Center serves as a research community in which industry, government, and academia collaborate to create new materials, structures, and architectures for the emerging “microphotonics platform” — the menu of on-chip and circuit-board level devices and components that will comprise future optoelectronics for telecommunications, computing, and sensing. In 2000, the Microphotonics Center launched the Communications Technology Roadmap program for photonics and optoelectronics.

You can learn more about activities of the the Microphotonics Center by downloading the 2025-26 Microphotonics Center Prospectus below: