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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

This review presents a distillation of important results published during 2009 in major
journals and conference proceedings. Although the commercial promise of silicon photonics …

Silicon photonics has developed into a mainstream technology driven by advances in
optical communications. The current generation has led to a proliferation of integrated …

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 microphotonics, a technology which merges photonics and silicon microelectronic
components, is rapidly evolving. Many different fields of application are emerging …