Silicon photonic integration in telecommunications

Abstract

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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.

Keywords

• Optical Fibers
• Telecommunications
• integrated optics
• gratings
• Waveguides
• silicon photonics