Silicon Photonics for Advanced Optical Interconnections

Author

Zhiping Zhou ; Zhijuan Tu ; Tiantian Li ; Xingjun Wang

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Adv. Opt. Commun. Syst. & Networks, Peking Univ., Beijing, China

Volume

33

Issue

4

fYear

2015

fDate

Feb.15, 15 2015

Firstpage

928

Lastpage

933

Abstract

After a brief review on silicon photonics research and development in China, the progress of silicon photonic components for coherent transceiver is described in details. The performance of the silicon modulators in high capacity, low-cost advanced intensity modulation and direct detection optical interconnection systems is also reported, and special properties of silicon photonic components, which lead to low power consumption, are discussed. These results show that silicon photonics has great prospect in advanced optical interconnection systems.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; optical interconnections; power consumption; silicon; Si; direct detection; optical interconnections; power consumption; silicon modulators; silicon photonics; Modulation; Optical interconnections; Optical waveguides; Photodetectors; Power demand; Silicon photonics; Advance modulation formats; Coherent subsystem; Intensity modulation and direct detection optical systems; Low power consumption; Silicon photonics; coherent subsystem; intensity modulation and direct detection optical systems; low power consumption; silicon photonics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2014.2377756

Filename

6977891