Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 15, Issue 2, 12200(2022)
Circuit-level convergence of electronics and photonics: basic concepts and recent advances
Integrated photonics is widely regarded as an important post-Moore’s law research direction. However, it suffers from intrinsic limitations, such as lack of control and satisfactory photonic memory, that cannot be solved in the optical domain and must be combined with electronics for practical use. Inevitably, electronics and photonics will converge. The photonic fabrication and integration technology is gradually maturing and electronics-photonics convergence (EPC) is experiencing a transition from device integration to circuit design. We derive a conceptual framework consisting of regulator, oscillator, and memory for scalable integrated circuits based on the fundamental concepts of purposeful behavior in cybernetics, entropy in information theory, and symmetry breaking in physics. Leveraging this framework and emulating the successes experienced by electronic integrated circuits, we identify the key building blocks for the integrated circuits for EPC and review the recent advances.
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Min Tan, Yuhang Wang, Ken Xingze Wang, Yuan Yu, Xinliang Zhang. Circuit-level convergence of electronics and photonics: basic concepts and recent advances[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2022, 15(2): 12200
Category: REVIEW ARTICLE
Received: Jan. 21, 2022
Accepted: Feb. 14, 2022
Published Online: Jan. 18, 2023
The Author Email: Tan Min (mtan@hust.edu.cn)