《Recent Progress in Silicon Photonics》.pdf

Fifth International Symposium on Advanced Science and Technology of Silicon Materials (JSPS Si Symposium ) Nov 10-14th Kona Hawaii USA Recent Progress in Silicon Photonics Mario Paniccia¹, Ling Liao¹, Brian R. Koch¹, Ansheng Liu¹, Alexander W. Fang², Richard Jones¹, Erica Lively², Yoel Chetrit³, Juthika Basak¹, Hat Hguyen¹, Doron Rubin³, Di Liang², Ying-Hau Kuo², John E. Bowers² ¹ Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA ² University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA ³ Numonyx Israel Ltd., Qiryat Gat 82109, Israel E-mail: Mario.paniccia@ Abstract Silicon Photonics has emerged as a promising technology for low cost communication in and around the data canter and around the PC. Integrated transmitters and receivers with 1 Tb/s transmit and receive rates are examples of the high performance devices that are feasible using a silicon photonics platform. An integrated 1 Tb/s transmitter can be generated by using a waveguide based wavelength division multiplexer to combine 25 laser signals at different wavelengths, each encoded with 40 Gb/s data by a silicon modulator. A 1 Tb/s receiver is possible by using a wavelength division demultiplexer connected to an array of 25 photodetectors each receiving 40 Gb/s data. At this point in time, in fact all of these components have been demonstrated individually on a silicon platform that allows for their integration together. Here we present recent results in Silicon Photonics research at Intel Corporation