• DocumentCode
    1627403
  • 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
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    207
  • Lastpage
    209
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2012 IEEE 9th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • ISSN
    1949-2081
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0826-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GROUP4.2012.6324135
  • Filename
    6324135