Heterogeneous silicon III–V Photonic Integrated Circuits

This article consists of a collection of slides from the author´s conference presentation. Some of the specific areas/topics discussed include: silicon photonics; silicon manufacturing; high speed interconnects; system scaling; multicore processors; interconnect power dissipation; waveguide optics; superior passive Si photonic devices; optical fiber coupling; 2D grating coupler; inverse taper; immersion lithography; in-band label extractor; optical packets; ring resonators; on-chip polarization handling devices; ultrasmall WDM filters; monolithic polarization diversity coherent receiver; ultralow loss waveguides; Si₃N₄ high Q resonators; high Q whispering gallery mode resonators; microresonators comb generation; SiN optical microresonators; single soliton generation; Ge-on-Si photodetectors; on chip lasers and amplifiers; silicon light emission; electrically pumped germanium laser; heterogeneous integration; DFB quantum well hybrid silicon lasers; quantum well transmitters; AlGaInAs-silicon evanescent amplifier; semiconductor optical amplifiers; electroabsorption modulator; mode locked lasers; quantum dot lasers; ring tunable lasers; coupled cavity tunable laser; external cavity wavelength tunable laser; optical buffer memory; CMOS integration; and WDM links.