Trends, Possibilities and Limitations of Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits and Devices

CMOS compatible silicon photonics combines two great inventions - the transistor(microprocessor) and the laser(optical communications), and enable >100x lower power and lower power density. In this presentation, a suite of hybrid silicon devices was demonstrated namely Fabry-Perot laser, DFB laser , ring laser, mode locked lasers, optical amplifiers, integrated preamplifier arrays, and a 50 Gbps modulators.