Silicon photonics has experienced phenomenal transformations over the last decade. In this
paper, we present some of the notable advances in silicon-based passive and active optical …

High speed photodetectors are a key building block, which allow a large wavelength range
of detection from 850 nm to telecommunication standards at optical fiber band passes of 1.3 …

Five criteria that are usually considered by IEEE standards committees for development of
next generation standards are broad market potential, distinct identity, and compatibility, as …

Silicon photonics will provide low-cost, high-bandwidth and compact optical components for
a wide range of applications in optical communications and interconnects. One of the cited …

Silicon-germanium (Si–Ge)-based avalanche photodiodes (APDs) have shown a significant
improvement in receiver sensitivity compared to their III–V counterparts due to the superior …

Silicon photonics is no longer an emerging field of research and technology but a present
reality with commercial products available on the market, where low‐dimensional silicon …

Abstract Silicon Photonics Technology using sub micrometer SOI platform, which
commercially emerged at the beginning of the century, has now gained market shares in the …

Optical networks-on-chip (ONoCs) are emerging communication architectures that can
potentially offer ultrahigh communication bandwidth and low latency to multiprocessor …

Fast Ge-on-Si pin photodiodes are fabricated and their frequency response is measured up
to 67 GHz at a wavelength of 1550 nm. At a bias voltage of-2 V, a 3-dB bandwidth (BW) of 49 …

Additional functionalities on semiconductor microchips are progressively important in order
to keep up with the ever-increasing demand for more powerful computational systems …