Silicon-based photonics allows thousands of optical components to be integrated. It
provides a path to the development of scalable, low-cost photonic integrated circuits akin to
electronics enabling many applications in communications, medical, and sensing.
Waveguides, multiplexing, and routing are straightforwardly implemented. While integrated
detection and modulation can be implemented for certain wavelength ranges, functional
performance across the full optical spectrum requires separately optimized components. In …