A special issue on Silicon Photonics

The tremendous demand on low cost optoelectronic systems that may be used for high-density data communications, real time sensing/detection and high-speed control/actuation has heated up the research and development in silicon photonics, which studies the principles and technologies of merging electronics and photonics into the silicon platform. To make a silicon photonic system reality, the compatibility in device size and integration processing between the photonics and electronics is essential. Over the past years, unprecedented advancement on individual silicon photonic devices, such as waveguide, beam splitter, light source, modulator, and detector, have been reported, yet the progress in size and processing issues are still under development.中国科学引文数据库(CSCD)11-2