Silicon photonic devices and integrated circuits have undergone rapid and significant
progresses during the last decade, transitioning from research topics in universities to …

A comprehensive resource to designing and constructing analog photonic links capable of
high RF performance Fundamentals of Microwave Photonics provides a comprehensive …

Photonic integration requires a versatile packaging technology that enables low-loss
interconnects between photonic chips in three-dimensional configurations. In this paper we …

We present silicon photonic integrated circuits (PICs) based coherent optical transmitters
and receivers for high-speed long-distance fiber optical transmission. High-degree photonic …

Growing concerns regarding the scalability of current optical networks as well as IP-based
networks are driving two important trends. One trend is a shift from the current rigid optical …

Group IV lasers are expected to revolutionize chip-to-chip optical communications in terms
of cost, scalability, yield, and compatibility to the existing infrastructure of silicon industries …

As datacenters continue to scale in size, energy efficiency for short reach (<; 2 km) links is a
major factor for networks that may connect hundreds of thousands of servers. We …

Spatial division multiplexing has been proposed as an option for further capacity increase of
transmission fibers. Application of this concept is attractive only, if cost and energy efficient …

We generate a 400-Gb/s line rate signal using a directly modulated 2× 4 monolithic vertical-
cavity-surface-emitting-laser array. The signal consists of four wavelength-division …

Elastic optical networking is attracting much attention as a promising solution to achieve
spectrum-efficient transport of higher data rates at 100 Gbits/s and beyond. If we draw an …