Title :
Trends, Possibilities and Limitations of Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits and Devices
Author_Institution :
Depts. of Mater. & Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Abstract :
CMOS compatible silicon photonics combines two great inventions - the transistor(microprocessor) and the laser(optical communications), and enable >100x lower power and lower power density. In this presentation, a suite of hybrid silicon devices was demonstrated namely Fabry-Perot laser, DFB laser , ring laser, mode locked lasers, optical amplifiers, integrated preamplifier arrays, and a 50 Gbps modulators.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; distributed feedback lasers; electro-optical modulation; integrated optoelectronics; ring lasers; CMOS compatible silicon photonics; DFB laser; Fabry-Perot laser; bit rate 50 Gbit/s; hybrid silicon device; integrated preamplifier arrays; microprocessor; mode locked laser; optical amplifier; optical communication; optical modulator; photonic devices; ring laser; silicon photonic integrated circuits; transistor; Educational institutions; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber devices; Photonic integrated circuits; Photonics; Silicon; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
DOI :
10.1109/CICC.2013.6658508
