Silicon photonics has developed into a mainstream technology driven by advances in
optical communications. The current generation has led to a proliferation of integrated …

Germanium (Ge) has played a key role in silicon photonics as an enabling material for
datacom applications. Indeed, the unique properties of Ge have been leveraged to develop …

The past decade has seen rapid progress in research into high-performance Ge-on-Si
photodetectors. Owing to their excellent optoelectronic properties, which include high …

Metal–inorganic semiconductor–metal photodetectors (MSM‐PDs) have received great
attention in many areas, such as optical fiber communication, sensing, missile guidance …

Significant progress has been made recently in demonstrating that silicon photonics is a
promising technology for low-cost optical detectors, modulators and light sources,,,,,,,,,,,. It …

Photonic systems based on complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology
require the integration of passive and active photonic devices. The integration of …

High speed photodetectors are a key building block, which allow a large wavelength range
of detection from 850 nm to telecommunication standards at optical fiber band passes of 1.3 …

We report on evanescently coupled Ge waveguide photodetectors that are grown on top of
Si rib waveguides. A Ge waveguide detector with a width of 7.4 μm and length of 50 μm …

Silicon photonics is currently a very active and progressive area of research, as silicon
optical circuits have emerged as the replacement technology for copper-based circuits in …

Since the first edition of this book, a lot of interesting integrated optoelectronic devices were
investigated and introduced in numerous publications. Therefore, Springer and me decided …