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Silicon photonic network-on-chip and enabling components

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As the transistor’s feature scales down and the integration density of the monolithic circuit increases continuously, the traditional metal interconnects face significant performance limitation to meet the stringent demands of high-speed, low-power and low-latency data transmission for on- and off-chip communications. Optical technology is poised to resolve these problems. Due to the complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) compatible process, silicon photonics is the leading candidate technology. Silicon photonic devices and networks have been improved dramatically in recent years, with a notable increase in bandwidth from the megahertz to the multi-gigahertz regime in just over half a decade. This paper reviews the recent developments in silicon photonics for optical interconnects and summarizes the work of our laboratory in this research field.

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    Ting Hu, Chen Qiu, Ping Yu, LongZhi Yang, WanJun Wang, XiaoQing Jiang & JianYi Yang

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    Mei Yang & Lei Zhang

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Hu, T., Qiu, C., Yu, P. et al. Silicon photonic network-on-chip and enabling components. Sci. China Technol. Sci. 56, 543–553 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-012-5112-2

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