AUTHOR=Doerr Christopher R. TITLE=Silicon photonic integration in telecommunications JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physics VOLUME=3 YEAR=2015 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2015.00037 DOI=10.3389/fphy.2015.00037 ISSN=2296-424X ABSTRACT=

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, at a given cost increases, silicon photonics makes more and more economic sense.