Silicon Photonic Devices

Abstract

Accompanying the rapid developments of the big-data society and the network of the things, novel technologies for constructing high-speed and low-power-consumption data processing and communication systems are highly demanded. Silicon photonic integration is widely regarded as one of the most promising ways in various applications, due to the low-cost and high-density-integration of silicon photonic devices. Many novel photonic devices based on silicon-on-insulator waveguides were developed. Here, some novel silicon photonic devices will be introduced, including silicon digital/analog modulators, wavelength MUX/DeMUX devices of AWG and EDG, Mode MUX/DeMUX devices, polarization controlling devices, and large-scale EO/TO silicon optical switches. [1-5].