Silicon Photonics: Industrial Applied Materials and Technologies
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2022) | Viewed by 298
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Interests: dynamical processes at the surfaces of metals; electrochemical; laser-assisted processes; nanoscale and larger structures
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Dear Colleagues,
Silicon photonics is among the top ten emerging technologies in microelectronics and is forecast by the MIT Communications Technology Roadmap to develop into a $20B annual market. Silicon photonics represents a technology which on the one hand builds on the well-developed methods of CMOS-compatible fabrication and yet, on the other, is potentially disruptive in its promise to revolutionize high-performance computing and sensing. Practical implementation in commercial devices will require low loss waveguides, polarization handling, tunability, and hitless switching. Fundamental and applied advances have been made in areas such as silicon waveguides, optical sources, optical modulators, photodetectors, and integration. These advances rest upon myriad solutions to problems such as growth, etching and bonding of a variety of materials including not only Si and SiO2 but also III-V semiconductors, lithium niobate, transparent conductive oxides or even graphene. Silicon is not an ideal material for photonics applications and its use relies intrinsically upon nonlinear optics. However, implementation of nonlinear effects has opened the door to emerging quantum photonics applications, such as entangled photon sources, single-photon sources, and integrated quantum photonic circuits.
Prof. Dr. Kurt W. Kolasinski
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- silicon photonics
- waveguides
- silicon on insulator (SOI)
- nonlinear optics
- solitons
- Raman amplifiers
- transparent conductive oxides (TCO)
