Trends, Possibilities and Limitations of Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits and Devices

Author

Bowers, John

Author_Institution

Depts. of Mater. & Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

22-25 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

89

Abstract

CMOS compatible silicon photonics combines two great inventions - the transistor(microprocessor) and the laser(optical communications), and enable >100x lower power and lower power density. In this presentation, a suite of hybrid silicon devices was demonstrated namely Fabry-Perot laser, DFB laser , ring laser, mode locked lasers, optical amplifiers, integrated preamplifier arrays, and a 50 Gbps modulators.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; distributed feedback lasers; electro-optical modulation; integrated optoelectronics; ring lasers; CMOS compatible silicon photonics; DFB laser; Fabry-Perot laser; bit rate 50 Gbit/s; hybrid silicon device; integrated preamplifier arrays; microprocessor; mode locked laser; optical amplifier; optical communication; optical modulator; photonic devices; ring laser; silicon photonic integrated circuits; transistor; Educational institutions; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber devices; Photonic integrated circuits; Photonics; Silicon; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICC.2013.6658508

Filename

6658508