Silicon Photonics
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Silicon Photonics

Silicon Photonics use semiconductor chip fabrication technology to create photonic circuits.  As silicon is transparent in the C-band, it can be used to create passive and active waveguide structures on a chip and electronic components can be integrated.  This way many critical electrical and optical components, such as the laser driver, modulator, transimpedance amplifier (TIA), clock and data recovery (CDR) and photodetector (PD), can be integrated monothically on a silicon substrate. 

This approach enables the significant cost and size advantages of large scale integrated microelectronics, while creating high speed and low power photonic devices.  Broadex believes that Silicon Photonics represents the future of both optical and microelectronics industries in the post-Moore’s Law era.