Title :
Opportunities and Challenges in Silicon Photonics
Author_Institution :
Center for Opt. Technol., Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA
Abstract :
This paper will review recent work towards silicon-compatible lasers, including intrinsic, extrinsic, and hybrid materials technologies. Silicon photonics offers potential for much lower electrical power consumption for optical links and interconnections
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; integrated optoelectronics; optical interconnections; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; reviews; silicon; CMOS; Mach-Zehnder modulators; Si; electroabsorption modulators; optical interconnections; optical links; photonic crystal waveguides; review; silicon microelectronics industry; silicon photonics; silicon wire; Bandwidth; Circuits; Optical design; Optical modulation; Optical sensors; Optical signal processing; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Silicon germanium; Silicon on insulator technology;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2006. LEOS 2006. 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9555-7
Electronic_ISBN :
0-7803-9555-7
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2006.278894
