Silicon photonics has evolved rapidly as a research topic with enormous application
potential. The high refractive index contrast of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) shows great promise …

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 …

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 germanium heterostructures extend considerably the optoelectronic performance of
silicon based systems. Together with small width waveguides on SOI substrates a variety of …

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

634 Chapter 30 circuit and its importance was recognized by the award of a Nobel Prize to
Kilby in 2000. In the subsequent almost five decades, the microelectronics industry …

Photonics is a key technology of this century. The combination of photonics and silicon
technology is of great importance because of the potentiality of coupling electronics and …

After 20 years of development, silicon photonics has reached commercial maturity with many
available products. From 2020 to 2025, predicted growth rates of the associated market are …

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 …

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 …