Imec silicon photonics platforms: performance overview and roadmap

Silicon photonics is now considered the photonics platform of choice for short-reach data center single mode pluggable transceivers. With the emergence of co-packaged optics concepts, it can also enable high performance computing with power-efficient interconnect, but also Lidar system integration or even optical quantum computing. In this paper we will present an overview of what can be achieved in state-of-the-art silicon photonics platforms and we will discuss some of the emerging technology trends. In particular, we will discuss the integration of LPCVD SiN in an active silicon photonics platform.

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