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Dr. Maximilien Billet  (Research Staff)

This person is working in this group since 2018.
Affiliation: INTEC Photonics Research Group and ULB
Information technology
Address: Technologiepark Zwijnaarde 126
9052 Zwijnaarde
Belgium
Office: iGent, Office 130.006
Phone: +32-9-264-3335
Fax: +32-9-264-3593
E-mail: maximilien.billet@ugent.be
ORCID: 0000-0002-5784-5050
ResearchGateID: Maximilien_Billet
LinkedIn: maximilien-billet-58a9a3a3/
Research Area: heterogeneous integration / lasers / nonlinear photonics
MaximilienBillet
Maximilien received the MSc of physics, light-matter interactions in 2014. Then he received in 2018 his PhD in optoelectronics from IEMN / Lille university. Afterward, he joined the Photonics Research Group as a postdoctoral researcher to work on nonlinear optics and lasers. His main role currently is to coordinate R&D projects related to the scalability of electro-optic materials integration on SiPho platforms.

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Publications (50)

    International Journals

  1. M. Niels, T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, S. Poelman, T. Reep, G. Roelkens, M. Billet, B. Kuyken, Centimetre-Scale Micro-Transfer Printing to enable Heterogeneous Integration of Thin Film Lithium Niobate with Silicon Photonics, Optical Materials Express, 15(3), p.531-540 doi:10.1364/OME.551748 (2025)  Download this Publication (3.7MB).
  2. I. Luntadila Lufungula, A. Shams-Ansari, D. Renaud, C. Op de Beeck, S. Cuyvers, S. Poelman, M. Billet, G. Roelkens, M. Loncar, B. Kuyken, Integrated Resonant Electro‐Optic Comb Enabled by Platform‐Agnostic Laser Integration (Front Cover), Lasers & Photonics Reviews, Germany, doi:10.1002/lpor.202400205 (2024)  Download this Publication (5MB).
  3. Y. Tan, Shenpu Niu, M. Billet, Nish Singh, M. Niels, T. Vanackere, Joris Van Kerrebrouck, G. Roelkens, B. Kuyken, D. Van Thourhout, Micro-transfer-printed Thin film lithium niobate (TFLN)-on- Silicon Ring Modulator, accepted for publication in ACS Photonics,  (to be published).
  4. M. Billet, S. Cuyvers, S. Poelman, A. Hermans, S. Seema Saseendra, T. Nakamura, S. Okamoto, Y. Inada, K. Hisada, T. Hirasawa, J. Ramirez, D. Neel, N. Vaissiere, J. Decobert, P. Soussan, X. Rottenberg, G. Roelkens, J. Kjellman, B. Kuyken, Heterogeneous tunable III-V-on-silicon-nitride mode-locked laser emitting wide optical spectra, photonics research (invited), 12(3), p.A21-A27 doi:10.1364/PRJ.507560 (2024)  Download this Publication (1.1MB).
  5. G. Roelkens, J. Zhang, L. Bogaert, E. Soltanian, M. Billet, A. Uzun, B. Pan, Y. Liu, E. Delli, D. Wang, V. Bonito Oliva, L.Thi Ngoc Tran, X. Guo, H. Li, S. Qin, K. Akritidis, Y. Chen, Y. Xue, M. Niels, D. Maes, M. Kiewiet, T. Reep, T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, I. Luntadila Lufungula, J. De Witte, L. Reis, S. Poelman, Y. Tan, H. Deng, W. Bogaerts, G. Morthier, D. Van Thourhout, B. Kuyken, Present and future of micro-transfer printing for heterogeneous photonic integrated circuits, Applied Physics Letters - Photonics (invited), doi:10.1063/5.0181099 (2024)  Download this Publication (1.4MB).
  6. T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, L. Bogaert, M. Billet, S. Poelman, S. Cuyvers, J. Van Kerrebrouck, A. Moerman, O. Caytan, N. Singh, S. Lemey, G. Torfs, P. Ossieur, G. Roelkens, S. Clemmen, B. Kuyken, Heterogeneous integration of a High-Speed Lithium Niobate Modulator on Silicon Nitride using Micro-Transfer Printing, APL Photonics, 8, p.paper 086102 (7 pages) doi:10.1063/5.0150878 (2023)  Download this Publication (7.1MB).
  7. T. Vandekerckhove, T. Vanackere, J. De Witte, S. Cuyvers, L.N Reis, M. Billet, G. Roelkens, S. Clemmen, B. Kuyken, Reliable micro-transfer printing method for heterogeneous integration of lithium niobate and semiconductor thin films, Optical Materials Express, doi:10.1364/OME.494038 (2023)  Download this Publication (8MB).
  8. G. Roelkens, J. Zhang, L. Bogaert, M. Billet, D. Wang, B. Pan, C.J. Krückel, E. Soltanian, D. Maes, T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, S. Cuyvers, J. De Witte, I. Luntadila Lufungula, X. Guo, H. Li, S. Qin, G. Muliuk, S. Uvin, B. Haq, C. Op de Beeck, J. Goyvaerts, G. Lepage, P. Verheyen, J. Van Campenhout, G. Morthier, B. Kuyken, D. Van Thourhout, R. Baets, Micro-transfer printing for heterogeneous Si photonic integrated circuits, IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (invited), 29(3), p.8200414 doi:10.1109/JSTQE.2022.3222686 (2022)  Download this Publication (6.4MB).
  9. M. Billet, L.N Reis, Y. Leger, C. Cornet, F. Raineri, I. Sagnes, K. Pantzas, G. Beaudoin, G. Roelkens, F. Leo, B. Kuyken, Gallium phosphide-on-insulator integrated photonic structures fabricated using micro-transfer printing, Optical Materials Express, (2021)  Download this Publication (3.1MB).
  10. J. Wei, C. Ciret, M. Billet, F. Leo, B. Kuyken, S-P. Gorza, Supercontinuum generation assisted by waves trapping in dispersion-managed integrated silicon waveguides, Physical Review Applied, p.054045 (11 pages) doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.14.054045 (2020)  Download this Publication (2.7MB).
  11. C. Ciret, K. Alexander, N. Poulvellarie, M. Billet, C. Mas Arabi, B. Kuyken, S-P. Gorza, F. Leo, Influence of Longitudinal Mode Components on Second Harmonic Generation in III-V-on-insulator Nanowires, Optics Express, p.31584-31593 doi:10.1364/OE.402150 (2020)  Download this Publication (1MB).
  12. N. Poulvellarie, U.D. Dave, K. Alexander, C. Ciret, M. Billet, C. Mas Arabi, F. Raineri, S. Combrie, A. De Rossi, G. Roelkens, S-P. Gorza, B. Kuyken, F. Leo, Second Harmonic Generation Enabled by Longitudinal Electric Field Components in Photonic Wire Waveguides, Physical Review A, p.023521 (6 pages) doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.102.023521 (2020)  Download this Publication (1.1MB).
  13. B. Kuyken, M. Billet, F. Leo, Y. Kresten, M. Pu, Octave-spanning coherent supercontinuum generation in an AlGaAs-on-insulator waveguide, Optics Letters, 45(3), p.603-606 doi:10.1364/OL.45.000603 (2020)  Download this Publication (1MB).
      International Conferences

    1. M. Kiewiet, S. Cuyvers, M. Billet, K. Van Gasse, B. Kuyken, High-Power Micro-Transfer Printed 796 nm Fabry-Perot Laser, accepted for publication in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe,  (to be published).
    2. K. Akritidis, M. Billet, M. Kiewiet, J. Fricke, H. Wenzel, J-P. Koester, A. Knigge, P. Neutens, R. Jansen, J. Brouckaert, P. Van Dorpe, M. Weyers, B. Kuyken, Transfer Printing of GaAs-based Amplifiers on a-Si:H Waveguides for Evanescently-Coupled Light Amplification in the Near-Infrared Band, accepted for publication in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, United States,  (to be published).
    3. M. Niels, M. Billet, T. Vandekerckhove, T. Vanackere, Y. Tan, G. Roelkens, B. Kuyken, Micro-Transfer Printing for cm-scale Heterogeneous Integration of Lithium Niobate, Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Society Benelux Chapter, (2024).
    4. A. Fernandez Gamez, T. Reep, S. Poelman, M. Billet, D. Pastor , P. Munoz, J. D. Domenech, C. Domi­nguez, B. Kuyken, Two-step Transfer Printed External Cavity Lasers on Commercial Silicon Nitride Platform, Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Society Benelux Chapter, Netherlands, (2024).
    5. S. Poelman, T. Reep, M. Billet, B. Kuyken, Heterogeneously integrated III/V-on-SiN mode-locked laser using two-step micro-transfer printing, IEEE Photonics Benelux Annual Symposium 2024, Netherlands, (2024).
    6. M. Kiewiet, S. Cuyvers, M. Billet, G. Roelkens, K. Van Gasse, B. Kuyken, Micro-Transfer Printed Semiconductor Optical Amplifier with Saturable Absorber for Pulse Generation at 790 nm Wavelength, IEEE Benelux Photonics Chapter - Annual Symposium 2024, Netherlands, (2024)  Download this Publication (318KB).
    7. S. Poelman, T. Reep, A. Lebanov, X. Rottenberg, J. Kjellman, M. Billet, B. Kuyken, Heterogeneous III-V-On-Silicon-Nitride Mode-Locked Laser With Intra-Cavity Filter, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim, South Korea, (2024).
    8. Y. Tan, S. Niu, T. Vanackere, M. Billet, M. Niels, N. Singh, J. Van Kerrebrouck, K-W. Chen, G. Roelkens, B. Kuyken, D. Van Thourhout, Heterogeneous integration of thin-film lithium niobate and silicon photonics via micro-transfer printing, Fifteenth International Conference on Information Optics and Photonics (CIOP 2024), China, p.paper 134183G (5 pages) doi:doi.org/10.1117/12.3048730 (2024)  Download this Publication (586KB).
    9. M. Niels, T. Vanackere, S. Poelman, T. Vandekerckhove, G. Roelkens, M. Billet, B. Kuyken, Characterisation of Micro-Transfer Printed cm-scale Lithium Niobate on a Silicon Nitride platform, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim, South Korea, doi:10.1109/CLEO-PR60912.2024.10676767 (2024)  Download this Publication (134KB).
    10. T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, M. Billet, Y. Tan, M. Niels, T. Zhai, A. Parracino, V. Bonito-Oliva, J. Withouck, G. Roelkens, D. Van Thourhout, S. Clemmen, B. Kuyken, Towards scalable heterogeneous integration of thin-film lithium niobate on silicon photonics using microtransfer printing, Proceedings Volume 13012, Integrated Photonics Platforms III; 130120B (invited), 13012, France, doi:10.1117/12.3026043 (2024)  Download this Publication (1.7MB).
    11. T. Vandekerckhove, R. Van Assche, I. Tanghe, M. Niels, S. Poelman, T. Vanackere, M. Billet, S. Clemmen, B. Kuyken, Highly-Selective Etching of Micro-Transfer-Printed Thin-Film Lithium Niobate for Low Coupling Losses, CLEO 2024, Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2024), United States, p.paper STh3F.6 (2 pages) doi:10.1364/CLEO_SI.2024.STh3F.6 (2024)  Download this Publication (1.7MB).
    12. Y. Tan, J. Van Kerrebrouck, T. Vanackere, S. Niu, M. Billet, M. Niels, G. Roelkens, B. Kuyken, D. Van Thourhout, Compact photonic crystal Si-LN modulator realized by micro-transfer printing, 2024 IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference (SiPhotonics), Japan, p.paper ThD3 (2 pages) doi:10.1109/SiPhotonics60897.2024.10543804 (2024)  Download this Publication (1.2MB).
    13. L. Reis, M. Billet, F. Raineri, I. Sagnes, K. Pantzas, G. Beaudoin, G. Roelkens, F. Leo, B. Kuyken, Octave-spanning coherent supercontinuum generation in a GaP-on-insulator waveguide, SPIE Photonics West 2024, PC12869, United States, p.PC128690J doi:10.1117/12.3002440 (2024)  Download this Publication (1.6MB).
    14. K. Akritidis, M. Billet, M. Kiewiet, J. Fricke, H. Wenzel, J-P. Koester, A. Knigge, P. Neutens, R. Jansen, J. Brouckaert, P. Van Dorpe, M. Weyers, B. Kuyken, Heterogeneous integration of evanescently-coupled GaAs-based amplifiers for laser systems emitting in the near-infrared, accepted for publication in Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Society Benelux Chapter, Belgium,  (to be published).
    15. N. Fiuczek, K. Akritidis, V. Bonito Oliva, S. Poelman, M. Billet, A. Hermans, I. Levchenko, B. Kuyken, H. Turski, Electrochemical etching - a way to enable transfer-printing of III-nitride devices, accepted for publication in Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Society Benelux Chapter, Belgium,  (to be published).
    16. M. Niels, M. Billet, T. Vandekerckhove, T. Vanackere, Y. Tan, G. Roelkens, B. Kuyken, Micro-Transfer Printing for cm-scale Heterogeneous Integration of Lithium Niobate, Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Society Benelux Chapter, Belgium, p.4 (2023)  Download this Publication (418KB).
    17. T. Reep, M. Billet, D. Van Thourhout, B. Kuyken, Characterisation of a transfer-printed InP saturable absorber on a silicon platform, accepted for publication in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim, South Korea,  (to be published).
    18. K. Akritidis, M. Billet, S.S. Saseendran, S. Poelman, G. Roelkens, P. Neutens, J. Brouckaert, P. Van Dorpe, B. Kuyken, a-Si:H Layer Enabling a sub-1.2 dB Loss SiN-III/V-SiN Transition for Evanescently Coupled Lasers at 920 nm, IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), United States, p.paper MH3.3 (2 pages) doi:10.1109/IPC57732.2023.10360576 (2023).
    19. M. Niels, M. Billet, T. Vandekerckhove, T. Vanackere, G. Roelkens, B. Kuyken, Scalable cm-scale Micro-Transfer Printing for Heterogeneous Integration of Lithium Niobate, Frontiers in Optics, United States, doi:10.1364/FIO.2023.FW5E.5 (2023).
    20. L. Reis, M. Billet, T. Vandekerckhove, F. Raineri, I. Sagnes, K. Pantzas, G. Beaudoin, G. Roelkens, F. Leo, B. Kuyken, Large size gallium phosphide micro-transfer printing for integrated nonlinear photonics, Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science 2023 (FiO/LS), United States, p.paper FTh3E.6 (2 pages) doi:10.1364/FIO.2023.FTh3E.6 (2023)  Download this Publication (1.3MB).
    21. Y. Tan, M. Niels, M. Billet, T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, G. Roelkens, B. Kuyken, D. Van Thourhout, Heterogeneously Integrated Si-LN Microring Modulator based on Transfer-printing method, European Conference on Optical Communication, 2023, United Kingdom, p.Tu.C.2.3 (3 pages) (2023)  Download this Publication (476KB).
    22. M. Billet, T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, M. Niels, L.N Reis, D. Maes, M. Kiewiet, K. Akritidis, S. Cuyvers, S. Poelman, T. Reep, V. Bonito Oliva, F. Leo, G. Roelkens, B. Kuyken, Filling the gap of silicon nitride photonic platform functionalities using micro-transfer printing, (invited) publication in Advanced Photonics Congress, South Korea,  (to be published)  Download this Publication (154KB).
    23. J. Zhang, L. Bogaert, M. Billet, D. Wang, B. Pan, S. Qin, E. Soltanian, S. Cuyvers, D. Maes, T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, S. Poelman, M. Kiewiet, I. Luntadila Lufungula, X. Guo, H. Li, J. De Witte, G. Lepage, P. Verheyen, J. Van Campenhout, B. Kuyken, G. Morthier, D. Van Thourhout, R. Baets, G. Roelkens, Photonic integrated circuits realized using micro-transfer printing, PIERS (invited), (2023).
    24. S. Poelman, M. Billet, A. Hermans, N. Fiuczek, H. Turski, B. Kuyken, Transfer Printing of InGaN/GaN Quantum-Well based Light Emitting Diodes, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, (2023), United States, doi:10.1364/CLEO_AT.2023.ATu3H.5 (2023)  Download this Publication (1.9MB).
    25. S. Cuyvers, S. Poelman, T. Reep, A. Hermans, C. Op de Beeck, G. Roelkens, M. Billet, B. Kuyken, III-V-on-Silicon-Nitride Mode-Locked Lasers, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, United States, p.paper SF1K.1 (2 pages) doi:10.1364/CLEO_SI.2023.SF1K.1 (2023)  Download this Publication (146KB).
    26. T. Vandekerckhove, T. Vanackere, J. De Witte, S. Cuyvers, L.N Reis, M. Billet, G. Roelkens, S. Clemmen, B. Kuyken, Pillar-Based High-Yield Heterogeneous Integration of Lithium Niobate and Gallium Phosphide Thin Films, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, United States, p.paper STh4O.6 (2 pages) doi:10.1364/CLEO_SI.2023.STh4O.6 (2023)  Download this Publication (1.7MB).
    27. T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, L. Bogaert, M. Billet, S. Poelman, S. Cuyvers, Joris Van Kerrebrouck, Arno Moerman, Olivier Caytan, Sam Lemey, Guy Torfs, G. Roelkens, S. Clemmen, B. Kuyken, High-Speed Lithium Niobate Modulator on Silicon Nitride using Micro-Transfer Printing, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, United States, p.paper STh1R.1 (2 pages) doi:10.1364/CLEO_SI.2023.STh1R.1 (2023)  Download this Publication (367KB).
    28. E. Soltanian, M. Billet, A. Hermans, B. Kuyken, J. Zhang, G. Roelkens, Micro-Transfer-Printed III-V-on-Si Semiconductor Optical Amplifier with 15 dBm Output Saturation Power, IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference (Formerly GFP Conference), United States, doi:10.1109/SiPhotonics55903.2023.10141916 (2023)  Download this Publication (299KB).
    29. M. Billet, L.N Reis, T. Vanackere, T. Vandekerckhove, F. Leo, G. Roelkens, B. Kuyken, Heterogeneous integration on silicon nitride for integrated photonics: lasers and nonlinear materials., JNTE 2022 (invited), France, (2022)  Download this Publication (147KB).
    30. E. Soltanian, M. Billet, A. Hermans, B. Kuyken, J. Zhang, G. Roelkens, Micro-Transfer-Printed III-V-on-Si Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers with High Saturation Power, IEEE Benelux Photonics Chapter - Annual Symposim 2022, 26, Netherlands, p.201-204 (2022)  Download this Publication (49.3MB).
    31. M. Kiewiet, S. Cuyvers, A. Hermans, M. Billet, J. Zhang, G. Roelkens, K. Van Gasse, B. Kuyken, Scalable Heterogeneous Integration of a Pre-Processed Facet-Emitting Visible-Wavelength GaAs Laser, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, (2023), United States, doi:10.1364/CLEO_SI.2023.STu4P.6 (2022)  Download this Publication (822KB).
    32. M. Billet, N. Poulvellarie, C. Op de Beeck, L.N Reis, Y. Leger, C. Cornet, F. Raineri, I. Sagnes, K. Pantzas, G. Beaudin, G. Roelkens, F. Leo, B. Kuyken, Gallium phosphide transfer printing for integrated nonlinear photonics, 2021 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO Europe-EQEC), p.paper CK-8.5 FRI (2021)  Download this Publication (2.8MB).
    33. D. Maes, G. Roelkens, M. Zaknoune, C. Op de Beeck, S. Poelman, M. Billet, M. Muneeb, S. Lemey, E. Peytavit, B. Kuyken, Heterogeneous integration of uni-travelling-carrier photodiodes using micro-transfer-printing on a silicon-nitride platform, 2021 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO Europe-EQEC), Germany, p.paper CK-4.3 THU doi:10.1109/CLEO/Europe-EQEC52157.2021.9542787 (2021)  Download this Publication (3.2MB).
    34. T. Vanackere, M. Billet, C. Op de Beeck, S. Poelman, G. Roelkens, S. Clemmen, B. Kuyken, Micro-Transfer Printing of Lithium Niobate on Silicon Nitride, European Conference on Optical Communication, Belgium, doi:10.1109/ECOC48923.2020.9333415 (2020)  Download this Publication (1.2MB).
    35. M. Billet, Y. Leger, C. Cornet, F. Raineri, I. Sagnes, G. Roelkens, F. Leo, B. Kuyken, Gallium phosphide-on-insulator photonics enabled by micro-transfer printing, OSA Advanced Photonics Congress, doi:10.1364/IPRSN.2020.ITu2A.6 (2020).
    36. J. Wei, C. Ciret, M. Billet, F. Leo, B. Kuyken, S-P. Gorza, Octave spanning supercontinuum generation in dispersion-managed silicon waveguides, OSA Advanced Photonics Congress, doi:10.1364/IPRSN.2020.IM4A.5 (2020).
    37. M. Pu, Y. Liu, C. Kim, Y. Zheng, E. Semenova, D. Kong, Hao Hu, Michael Galili, L. Katsuo Oxenlowe, B. Kuyken, M. Billet, F. Leo, Kresten Yvind, Broadband optical signal processing in AlGaAs-on insulator waveguides, OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (invited), doi:10.1364/IPRSN.2020.ITu2A.1 (2020).
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