Silicon photonic devices for high-capacity optical interconnects

Low-power, high-speed optical interconnects are essential to future high-performance computers and data centers for the cloud. Using CMOS-compatible silicon photonics processes, we have developed integrated photonic devices, such as 80 Gb/s optical modulators with ultralow power consumption at the level of femtojoule per bit and O-band on-chip wavelength multiplexers. These devices are promising for next-generation 400 Gb/s optical interconnects.

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