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Photonic integration and photonics-electronics convergence on silicon platform

Silicon photonics technology, which has the DNA of silicon electronics technology, promises to provide a compact photonic integration platform with high integration density, mass-producibility, and excellent cost performance. This technology has been used to develop and to integrate various photonic...

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Autores principales: Yamada, Koji, Liu, Jifeng, Baba, Toshihiko, Vivien, Laurent, Xu, Dan-Xia
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: Frontiers Media 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/978-2-88919-693-7
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2309383
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author Yamada, Koji
Liu, Jifeng
Baba, Toshihiko
Vivien, Laurent
Xu, Dan-Xia
author_facet Yamada, Koji
Liu, Jifeng
Baba, Toshihiko
Vivien, Laurent
Xu, Dan-Xia
author_sort Yamada, Koji
collection CERN
description Silicon photonics technology, which has the DNA of silicon electronics technology, promises to provide a compact photonic integration platform with high integration density, mass-producibility, and excellent cost performance. This technology has been used to develop and to integrate various photonic functions on silicon substrate. Moreover, photonics-electronics convergence based on silicon substrate is now being pursued. Thanks to these features, silicon photonics will have the potential to be a superior technology used in the construction of energy-efficient cost-effective apparatuses for various applications, such as communications, information processing, and sensing. Considering the material characteristics of silicon and difficulties in microfabrication technology, however, silicon by itself is not necessarily an ideal material. For example, silicon is not suitable for light emitting devices because it is an indirect transition material. The resolution and dynamic range of silicon-based interference devices, such as wavelength filters, are significantly limited by fabrication errors in microfabrication processes. For further performance improvement, therefore, various assisting materials, such as indium-phosphide, silicon-nitride, germanium-tin, are now being imported into silicon photonics by using various heterogeneous integration technologies, such as low-temperature film deposition and wafer/die bonding. These assisting materials and heterogeneous integration technologies would also expand the application field of silicon photonics technology. Fortunately, silicon photonics technology has superior flexibility and robustness for heterogeneous integration. Moreover, along with photonic functions, silicon photonics technology has an ability of integration of electronic functions. In other words, we are on the verge of obtaining an ultimate technology that can integrate all photonic and electronic functions on a single Si chip. This e-Book aims at covering recent developments of the silicon photonic platform and novel functionalities with heterogeneous material integrations on this platform.
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Liu, Jifeng
Baba, Toshihiko
Vivien, Laurent
Xu, Dan-Xia
Photonic integration and photonics-electronics convergence on silicon platform
title Photonic integration and photonics-electronics convergence on silicon platform
title_full Photonic integration and photonics-electronics convergence on silicon platform
title_fullStr Photonic integration and photonics-electronics convergence on silicon platform
title_full_unstemmed Photonic integration and photonics-electronics convergence on silicon platform
title_short Photonic integration and photonics-electronics convergence on silicon platform
title_sort photonic integration and photonics-electronics convergence on silicon platform
topic Other Fields of Physics
url https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/978-2-88919-693-7
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2309383
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