First demonstration of high density optical interconnects integrated with lasers, optical modulators, and photodetectors on single silicon substrate

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 26, 2011, Pages

  Urino, Yutaka ^a,b   Shimizu, Takanori ^a,b   Okano, Makoto ^a,c   Hatori, Nobuaki ^a,b   Ishizaka, Masashige ^a,b   Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi ^a,b   Baba, Takeshi ^a,b   Akagawa, Takeshi ^a,b   Akiyama, Suguru ^a,b   Usuki, Tatsuya ^a,b   Okamoto, Daisuke ^a,b   Miura, Makoto ^a,b   Noguchi, Masataka ^a,b   Fujikata, Junichi ^a,b   Shimura, Daisuke ^a,b   Okayama, Hideaki ^a,b   Tsuchizawa, Tai ^a,d   Watanabe, Toshifumi ^a,d   Yamada, Koji ^a,d   Itabashi, Seiichi ^a,d   Saito, Emiko ^a,b   Nakamura, Takahiro ^a,b   Arakawa, Yasuhiko ^a,e   more..

^a Institute for Photonics Electronics Convergence System Technology PECST   (Japan)

^b PHOTONICS ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION PETRA   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^d NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^e INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; PHOTODETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDES;

BANDWIDTH BOTTLENECKS; ERROR-FREE DATA; HIGH DENSITY; INFORMATION INDUSTRY; INTER-CHIP; LSI CHIPS; SINGLE SILICON SUBSTRATE;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 83455229785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.00B159     Document Type: Article

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