40Gb/s optical active cable using monolithic transceivers implemented in silicon photonics enabled 0.13-µm SOI CMOS Technology

As transistor scaling slows down, computing power can be increased through parallelism and system-level innovation. That is where Silicon photonics comes in - Eliminates copper bottleneck. Rack-to-rack and board-to-board (currently). Chip-to-chip and intra-chip (in the future) - Can be ported to advanced CMOS nodes and integrated with CPUs, memory, and other system elements. Silicon photonics is here! - Provides unprecedented level of optoelectronic integration - Enables low-cost, low-power connectivity solutions.