Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 5, Issue 1, 3(2012)
On-chip silicon light source: from photonics to plasmonics
Practical silicon photonic interconnects become possible nowadays after the realization of the practical silicon light sources, where the hybrid integra-tions of III-V semiconductors and silicon by bonding play a fundamental role. Photonic interconnects dissipate substantially less power and offer a signicantly greater information bandwidth than those of electronic intercon-nects; however, one emerging problem is the size mismatch between photonic and electronic components when integrated on a chip. Therefore, surface plasmonic source with deeply sub-wavelength size is under intense investigation as the next generation Si-based light source for on-chip interconnects. In this paper, we shall review some of the latest achievements on this topic.
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Guangzhao RAN, Hongqiang LI, Chong WANG. On-chip silicon light source: from photonics to plasmonics[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2012, 5(1): 3
Received: Oct. 17, 2011
Accepted: Nov. 7, 2011
Published Online: Sep. 10, 2012
The Author Email: RAN Guangzhao (rangz@pku.edu.cn)