Silicon photonic integration in telecommunications
Abstract
Silicon photonics is the guiding of light in a planar arrangement of silicon-based materials to perform various functions. We focus here on the use of silicon photonics to create transmitters and receivers for fiber-optic telecommunications. As the need to squeeze more transmission into a given bandwidth, a given footprint, and a given cost increases, silicon photonics makes more and more economic sense.
- Publication:
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Frontiers in Physics
- Pub Date:
- August 2015
- DOI:
- 10.3389/fphy.2015.00037
- Bibcode:
- 2015FrP.....3...37D
- Keywords:
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- integrated optics;
- silicon photonics;
- Optical Fibers;
- gratings;
- Coherent communications;
- Waveguides;
- Telecommunications