DocumentCode
2844647
Title
Scaling information technology on the silicon platform
Author
Kimerling, Lionel C.
Author_Institution
MIT Microphotonics Center, Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
fYear
2010
fDate
19-23 Sept. 2010
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
20
Abstract
Silicon Microphotonics provides performance attributes for generational scaling of cost, energy and bandwidth density: small footprint, waveguide integration and highly parallel architectures through large-scale electronic-photonic integration. This tutorial presents design principles for monolithically integrated, silicon-based optical components, circuits and architectures.
Keywords
integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; micro-optics; optical waveguides; silicon; bandwidth density; design principles; large-scale electronic-photonic integration; monolithically integrated optical components; parallel architectures; scaling information technology; silicon microphotonics; silicon platform; silicon-based optical components; waveguide integration;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location
Torino
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-8536-9
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-8534-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621239
Filename
5621239
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