Silicon-based photonic devices

Author

Soref, R.A.

Author_Institution

USAF Rome Lab., Hanscom Air Force Base, MA, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

15-17 Feb. 1995

Firstpage

66

Lastpage

67

Abstract

Silicon-based photonics is an important technology direction for research and development. The payoffs from Si photonic R&D will be low-cost, reliable opto-electronic integrated circuits (OEICs) and photonic integrated circuits (PICs) that will find application in optical communications, flat panel displays, optical storage, printing, imaging, sensing, and information processing. The motivation for making Si PICs and OEICs is to attain high-yield manufacturable chips: inexpensive commercial products resulting from high-volume production on 8-inch wafers. Regarding performance, the expectation is that the functionality of Si PICs and OEICs will be equal to, or in some cases greater than, that of III-V semiconductor counterparts.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; silicon; Si; chip manufacture; opto-electronic integrated circuits; photonic integrated circuits; silicon-based photonic devices; Application specific integrated circuits; Flat panel displays; Image storage; Integrated circuit reliability; Integrated circuit technology; Integrated optics; Optical fiber communication; Optical sensors; Photonic integrated circuits; Research and development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference, 1995. Digest of Technical Papers. 41st ISSCC, 1995 IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

ISSN

0193-6530

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2495-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCC.1995.535278

Filename

535278