HYBRID SILICON PHOTONICS

-The Future of Electronics

Presentation by
B.SIVARAJ 09F61A0491 V.VELAYUDHAM 09F61A04B2

III ECE , SIETK

III ECE, SIETK

sivarajbellam@gmail.com
PH NO.9032186441

velusmiles@gmail.com
PHNO:8374068598

*Silicon Photonics
Photonics:
The Technology of emission
transmission, control and

detection of light (photons)

almost always from the laser.

* Building Blocks of Silicon Photonics

*Light Source
Start with a cross sectional Indium Phosphide waveguide Voltage is applied to the InP to emit light If we bring a silicon waveguide up to the InP, light will couple into the Si waveguide

This is evanescent coupling

*The Hybrid Laser

This ruby laser used a flash bulb as an optical pump
Fully Reflective Mirror

FLASH BULB

Partially Reflective Mirror

LASER BEAM RUBY CRYSTAL ROD

Propagate a light signal down its length Single mode vs. multimode fiber Typical speed is 10 Gigabits per second Potential for 20 Terabits per second

Currently used in business for wide area links

Currently carries TV signals and data communications

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Background Technology
Optical communications Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) manufacturing process LIGHT SOURCES:

Light Emitting Diodes (LED),

Laser Diodes (LD)

Alignment to fiber optic cables is critical

*Why Silicon Photonics?

Speed of optical network communications

Terabits/second
Speed of microprocessor technologies Dual core/multi core processors Gigabits/second Speed of electrical circuits Start to have problems in low Gigabits/second range

* Hexus.net (2006). IDF Spring 2005: Silicon Photonics as true

Interconnects. Retrieved October 17, 2006 from www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=1016&redirect=yes * Intel Corporation (2006). Hybrid Silicon Laser. Retrieved October 17, 2006 from http://www.intel.com/research/platform/sp/hybridlaser.htm * Intel Corporation (2006b). Silicon Photonics Research. Retrieved October 17, 2006 from http://www.intel.com/research/platform/sp * Koehl, Sean (2005). Silicon Photonics Could Revolutionize future Servers and Networks. Retrieved October 17, 2006 from http://www.convergedigest.com/blueprints/ttp03/bp1.asp?ID=24 2&ctgy=Market * Matsumomto, Craig (2005). Luxtera Chases Silicon Photonics. Retrieved October 17, 2006 from http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreading&do c_id=70863

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