Open AccessPhotonic Integrated Circuits for Optical Communication
Author(s) -
Meister Stefan,
Franke Bülent,
Eichler Hans Joachim,
Kupijai Sebastian,
Rhee Hanjo,
AlSaadi AWS,
Zimmermann Lars
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
optik & photonik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2191-1975
pISSN - 1863-1460
DOI - 10.1002/opph.201290052
Subject(s) - photonic integrated circuit , photonics , realization (probability) , electronic circuit , bandwidth (computing) , silicon photonics , electronic engineering , computer science , integrated optics , integrated circuit , optical communication , optoelectronics , telecommunications , engineering , electrical engineering , materials science , statistics , mathematics
Integrated optics especially on silicon wafer allows fabrication of highly complex Photonic Integrated Circuits (PIC) for optical communications. PICs are a promising approach to handle the quickly growing data traffic in the near future where pure copper based electronic will fail to satisfy the requirements of bandwidth and distance. For the realization of industrial applications an optical components library containing the individual passive and active devices, e.g. waveguides, filters, eo‐modulators, etc., for the PICs is needed.