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The Central Coast Partnership for Regional Industry-Focused Micro/Nanotechnology Education (CC-PRIME) is a regional collaboration between Santa Barbara City College (SBCC), the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), and local industry partners, with the goal of addressing a demonstrated local workforce need in the field. Existing training available through the Support Center for Microsystems Education (SCME) was adapted with input from local industry to develop an initial cleanroom training in Micro/Nanotechnology for community college students and faculty. Two summer training sessions have been implemented, with student focus groups and industry feedback guiding modifications and additional training development. Ongoing input from local industry partners and an opportunity to leverage the existing SCME curriculum that project staff and faculty were trained on have proven critical in the development of the training. Access to local cleanroom facilities and staff and initial training for community college faculty were essential to successfully implementing the project. Additional modules and trainings are being developed to build out further and broaden this initial cleanroom training. 

A fully-functional photonic integrated circuit (PIC) platform with supporting active and passive components in the extended short- and mid-wave infrared spectral regime is of significant research interest for next-generation optical systems. Here we design offset quantum well-based photonic integrated circuits which primarily consist of four section-based widely tunable single-mode lasers emitting at 2560 nm. The platform requires the selective removal of InGaAsSb multi-quantum wells located above a GaSb-based optical waveguide layer and then subsequent single blanket GaSb regrowth. Encouraging preliminary experimental results on regrowth are also reported to confirm the feasibility of the proposed PICs. The simulation result for the tunable laser design shows that a tuning range as wide as ~120 nm is possible. The quasi-theoretical work performed here is an initial step towards demonstrating complex non-telecommunication PICs which could offer a comprehensive range of photonic functionalities.