Silicon photonics has attracted tremendous interest from academia and industry, as the
fabrication of the silicon family of photonic devices is mostly compatible with the …

The tremendous growth of data traffic has spurred a rapid evolution of optical
communications for a higher data transmission capacity. Next-generation fiber-optic …

In recent years, optical modulators, photodetectors,(de) multiplexers, and heterogeneously
integrated lasers based on silicon optical platforms have been verified. The performance of …

The increasing gap between the growth of datacenter traffic and electrical switch capacity is
expected to worsen due to the slowdown of Moore's law, motivating the need for a new …

It has long been known that photonic communication can alleviate the data movement
bottlenecks that plague conventional microelectronic processors. More recently, there has …

Among the objectives for large-scale quantum computation is the quantum interconnect: a
device that uses photons to interface qubits that otherwise could not interact. However, the …

Silicon photonics has experienced phenomenal transformations over the last decade. In this
paper, we present some of the notable advances in silicon-based passive and active optical …

This Tutorial will discuss the motivation, benefits, and challenges of photonic switching in
data centers and cover prospects of future data centers involving emerging new …

Reconfigurable optical networks have emerged as a promising technology to efficiently
serve the fast-growing traffic produced by the digital society. This paper provides a survey of …

The multi-dimensional multiplexing technology is very promising for further increasing the
link capacity of optical interconnects. A 96-channel silicon-based on-chip reconfigurable …