Title :
Silicon photonics for optical access networks
Author :
Urata, Ryohei ; Liu, Hong ; Lam, Cedric ; Dashti, Pedram ; Johnson, Chris
Author_Institution :
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA
Abstract :
We highlight promising developments and directions in silicon photonics for realizing cost effective WDM-PON: photonic integration for integrated WDM transceivers at the OLT and widely tunable laser technologies for achieving a high performance, colorless ONU.
Keywords :
integrated optoelectronics; laser tuning; optical fibre networks; optical transceivers; passive optical networks; semiconductor lasers; silicon-on-insulator; wavelength division multiplexing; OLT; Si; cost effective WDM-PON; high performance colorless ONU; integrated WDM transceivers; optical access networks; photonic integration; silicon photonics; tunable laser technologies; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; Photonics; Silicon; Transceivers; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2012 IEEE 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0826-8
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2012.6324135
