title: Recent advances in silicon-based passive and active optical interconnects.
abstract: Silicon photonics has experienced phenomenal transformations over the last decade. In this paper, we present some of the notable advances in silicon-based passive and active optical interconnect components, and highlight some of our key contributions. Light is also cast on few other parallel technologies that are working in tandem with silicon-based structures, and providing unique functions not achievable with any single system acting alone. With an increasing utilization of CMOS foundries for silicon photonics fabrication, a viable path for realizing extremely low-cost integrated optoelectronics has been paved. These advances are expected to benefit several application domains in the years to come, including communication networks, sensing, and nonlinear systems.
authors.forename: Harish
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Subbaraman
authors.forename: Xiaochuan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Amir
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hosseini
authors.forename: Xingyu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kwong
authors.forename: Ray T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Chen