… This section focuses on the key components in silicon photonics: grating couplers. To
further improve the performance, combination of diffractive gratings and crosswise sub-wavelength …

… In spite of this, Si-based photonics remained an active area of research and over the last 10…
Another important area of application of silicon photonics is in the very large-scale integrated …

… This may happen only if silicon is the material on which we build this photonic technology in
… I believe this to be the first comprehensive book on silicon photonics. I found it to be easy to …

… of the main motivations to develop silicon photonics. To alleviate the miserable light emission
in bulk Si (∼ 10 … Detectors for Si photonics are based on three different approaches [245]: …

… The potential application and market space for silicon photonics is predicated of its
combination of performance, yield, reliability and cost. Today’s commercial driver is datacom and …

… silicon photonics (waveguides, modulators, sources, and detectors) are reviewed and their
counterpart of using Si … Hereafter, we emphasize how Si-nc can serve silicon photonics by …

… Rather than attempting to provide a comprehensive historical review of silicon photonics, …
The second mainstream application envisioned for silicon photonics is optical interconnects …

… is an introduction to the field of silicon photonics, an area of … Moreover, other applications
of silicon photonic devices eg … The waveguide in principle just consists of a piece of silicon; a …

… Silicon photonics is rapidly gaining importance as a generic technology platform for a widerange
of applications … It allows to implement photonic functions in or above silicon through the …

… nor conventional photonics could handle alone. There is an … of silicon photonics, we can
identify applications in photonic … /wireless photonics, electronic warfare, photonics for millimeter-…