Guiding, modulating, and emitting light on Silicon-challenges and opportunities

Author

Lipson, Michal

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA

Volume

23

Issue

12

fYear

2005

Firstpage

4222

Lastpage

4238

Abstract

Silicon photonics could enable a chip-scale platform for monolithic integration of optics and microelectronics for applications of optical interconnects in which high data streams are required in a small footprint. This paper discusses mechanisms in silicon photonics for waveguiding, modulating, light amplification, and emission. These mechanisms, together with recent advances of fabrication techniques, have enabled the demonstration of ultracompact passive and active silicon photonic components with very low loss.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; monolithic integrated circuits; optical interconnections; optical losses; optical modulation; optical waveguides; photoluminescence; silicon; Si; chip-scale platform; data streams; fabrication techniques; integrated optics; light amplification; light emission; light guiding; light modulation; microelectronics; monolithic integration; optical interconnects; optical loss; silicon photonics; Integrated optics; Microelectronics; Monolithic integrated circuits; Optical device fabrication; Optical interconnections; Optical losses; Optical modulation; Photonics; Silicon; Stimulated emission; Integrated optics; light emitters; modulators; silicon; waveguides;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2005.858225

Filename

1566750