Fabless silicon photonics

CMOS (Complementary metal oxide semiconductor) 互补金属氧化物半导体；

CCD (Charge-coupled device) 电荷耦合器件

MOSFET (Metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor)

electronic integration -> photonic integration -> electronic photonic integration

monolithic integration 单片集成；

 

Discrete photonic devices:

• connection with optical fibers and connectors (Larger cost and yield loss due to packaging processes)
• suffer from misalignment problems (submicron accuracy)

Silicon photonic applications:

• biosensing
• nonlinear optics
• radio frequency integrated optoelectronics
• coherent communications
• high-speed microwave signal processing

Plasma dispersion effect (等离子体色散效应)

 

Device designs based on SOI [1]

 

[1] M. Hochberg, N. C. Harris, R. Ding, et al. “Silicon photonics: the next fabless semiconductor industry”. IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine 5.1 (2013), pp. 48–58