Silicon Photonics Packaging: Connecting Photonic Integrated Circuits with the Outside World

A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2024) | Viewed by 792

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Advanced Packaging Engineer at Nokia of America Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Interests: integrated Si photonics; photonic packaging; semiconductor lasers; hybrid laser integration; 3D packaging
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
Interests: design and simulation of semiconductor lasers and si-photonics components; semiconductor processing of III-V edge-emitting lasers; design and development of semiconductor light emitter's characterization setups

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the Special Issue dedicated to Si photonics packaging solutions.

After decades of academic research, silicon photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are widely deployed in industry nowadays. Several foundries offer Si photonics multi-project wafer (MPW) runs, which makes the technology accessible not only to corporations, but also to small research labs and early stage startups. After wafer- and die-scale lab testing, PICs require packaging into a durable module that will connect them to the outside world and protect them from harsh environments. In the next step of Si PIC productization, the packaging technology should ensure reliable operation, high PIC performance, and low cost. Thus, there will be significant momentum in academia and industry for developing and standardizing robust packaging solutions for fast Si PIC introduction.

This Special Issue aims to highlight the current progress and recent state-of-the-art in Si PIC packaging.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: advanced fiber-to-PIC attachment (edge, grating, evanescent coupling), wafer-scale packaging, laser integration, micro-optics assembly, photonic MEMS packaging, electronic-photonic co-integration, and assembly thermal management.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Aleksandrs Marinins
Dr. Nouman Zia
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Si photonics
  • photonic packaging
  • co-packaged optics
  • optical fiber
  • semiconductor laser
  • micro-optics
  • MEMS

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