Silicon-Based Photonic Technology and Devices
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "A：Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 48
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Si-based III-V devices; MOCVD; semiconductor devices
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Silicon-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs) developed on standard silicon platforms can meet the information interaction needs of society in the “post-Moore’s Law era”. They are emerging as a competitive technology that can be used to resolve the “communication bottleneck” in current data centers and high-performance computing systems, where issues related to the power and speed of traditional electrical interconnects have become increasingly important. Using photons instead of electrons for data transmission offers advantages such as high-speed operation, low power consumption, and high-capacity transmission. Building PICs on industry-standard Si platforms lends them additional benefits like an ultra-low cost, mass manufacturing, high integration density, and scalability—essential features for future consumer applications like automobiles, metrology, and bio/chemical sensing. Furthermore, constructing PICs on Si facilitates their co-integration with Si microelectronics and enables the development of high-performance multi-functional Si-based optoelectronic integrated circuits.
Silicon exhibits several properties that make it a promising photonics material: it possesses a high refractive index compared to that of its oxide counterparts, low loss at communication wavelengths, and a substantial thermo-optic coefficient for tuning purposes. Leveraging these attributes has led to the demonstration of various photonic components on integrated Si photonics platforms, including mode couplers, tunable filters, and optical modulators. However, due to its nature as an indirect bandgap material, silicon's light emission efficiency remains limited; thus, laser sources based on silicon continue to pose significant challenges in terms of their integration into photonics.
This Special Issue aims to present research papers and review articles that focus on silicon-based photonic technology and devices, including the concepts and physics underlying silicon-based laser sources, waveguides, modulators, amplifiers, couplers, filters, and photodetectors and their fabrication processes.
Dr. Jian Li
Dr. Yisu Yang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- silicon-based photonics
- PICs
- quantum well/dot lasers
- modulators
- detectors
- material growth
- device processes
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