With the increasing bandwidth requirement in computing and signal processing, the inherent
limitations in metallic interconnection are seriously threatening the future of traditional IC …

Silicon photonics research can be dated back to the 1980s. However, the previous decade
has witnessed an explosive growth in the field. Silicon photonics is a disruptive technology …

Silicon photonics has attracted tremendous attention and research effort as a promising
technology in optoelectronic integration for computing, communications, sensing, and solar …

Silicon photonics is currently a very active and progressive area of research, as silicon
optical circuits have emerged as the replacement technology for copper-based circuits in …

This is the third volume in the Silicon Photonics series, which we started in 2004 with a book
simply entitled Silicon Photonics. At that time, the field was in its infancy and the research …

This book is volume II of a series of books on silicon photonics. It gives a fascinating picture
of the state-of-the-art in silicon photonics from a component perspective. It presents a …

With many illustrations, including some in color, this handbook provides an up-to-date
reference to the broad and rapidly changing area of silicon photonics. It shows how basic …

We are fortunate in this special issue to have authoritative invited papers written by key
contributors to the field silicon-based photonics. It is a pleasure for me to be in the company …

The recent progress is reviewed and future prospects of silicon photonics in next generation
communication and computing systems are probed. Leveraging the many-billion-dollar …

In this paper, we present a brief history of silicon photonics from the early research papers in
the late 1980s and early 1990s, to the potentially revolutionary technology that exists today …