The ICT-BOOM project: Photonic routing on a silicon-on-insulator hybrid platform

BOOM is a photonic integration concept that aims to develop compact, cost-effective and power efficient silicon photonic components for high capacity routing functionalities. To accomplish this, flip-chip bonding and heterogeneous wafer scale fabrication techniques are employed that enable Si manufacturing with III-IV material processing. We present in this paper the second generation of BOOM devices that perform all-optical wavelength conversion, label processing and switching on SOI nano-wire boards.