Warsaw-based Ryszard Piramidowicz leads the IPCEI HyperPIC project, which has two principal goals. First, developing a cutting-edge platform for mid-infrared photonic integration and, second, building a fully vertical, European supply chain in this vital field. 

Backed by more than €100m in EU funding and combining quantum and interband cascade lasers, antimonide-based photodetectors, and germanium-on-silicon waveguides within a heterogeneously integrated and scalable platform, it is one of the most ambitious photonics efforts in Europe today.