The Integrated Photonics Group at Tyndall National Institute is affiliated with the Department of Physics at University College Cork. The group was created in late 2007 with Science Foundation Ireland support to complete the portfolio of Photonic research in Ireland. The Integrated Photonics Group seeks to work with both academia and industry in bridging the gap from Photonic materials and devices to Photonic Systems and applications. The group actively pursues research and development in Photonic packaging, high speed Photonics, and Photonic Integrated Circuits. The core team, lead by Dr. Frank Peters and Dr. Peter O’Brien, have many years of experience in academic and industrial photonics R&D groups which include the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (CalTech), U. C. Santa Barbara, Agilent Technologies and Infinera.