High-performance photonic integrated circuits (PICs)

This tutorial presents a collection of slides and concludes that: (1) Active InP-based photonic ICs can be created with size, weight, power and system performance metrics superior to discrete solutions in many situations. However, cost can only be less if the market size is sufficient. (2) Close integration of control/feedback electronics will be desirable in many future PIC applications. (3) Coherent approaches will be greatly enabled by the use of photonic integration, and numerous sensor applications may be enabled in addition to higher-spectral-efficiency communications.