Fibre optics and Optical Communication

Scaling capacity and functionality in large-scale photonic integrated circuits

14.11.2008 - Photonik international 2/2008 |  [ deutsche Version lesen ]

While large scale integrated circuits have revolutionised the electronics industry, the optical components industry has been surprisingly slow to recognise the benefits that photonic integration can bring. The concept of photonic integration has been proposed for over 35 years [1-5], but commercial, large-scale photonic integrated circuits (LS-PICs) were not realized until 2004, with the introduction of 10-channel 100 Gb/s transmitters and receivers [6].

Photonik I2/2008
Authors: Geoff Bennett, Infinera Corp., London, United Kingdom Radhakrishnan Nagarajan, Infinera Corp., Sunnyvale, CA, USA

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