Review in Nature Reviews EE: Advancing Silicon Photonics with CMOS
Review Article Published in Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering: Advances in Silicon Photonics and CMOS Co-Integration
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Recently, the Integrated Photonics Lab collaborated with Haisheng Rong’s team at Intel, David Pan at The University of Texas at Austin, and John Bowers at the University of California, Santa Barbara to publish a comprehensive review in Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering. The article is titled “Integrating silicon photonics with complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor technologies”.
The review presents progress across key photonic building blocks, including on-chip lasers and semiconductor optical amplifiers, compact modulators, high-speed photodetectors, low-loss routing and efficient chip–fibre couplers. It also highlights advances in multimaterial integration and electronics co-design, showing how these approaches are driving total link energy toward the sub-picojoule-per-bit regime. The paper connects device-level innovations with emerging system architectures and discusses the trade-offs among bandwidth density, thermal design, yield and cost.
The team envisions that the continued convergence of silicon photonics and CMOS technologies will have broad impact across optical compute input/output, precision sensing and quantum photonics, enabling system-level gains throughout future computing and communication infrastructures.
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Open-access link: https://rdcu.be/ePTBm
Ref.: Y. Wan*, W. He, L. Liao, J. Jaussi, D. Pan, J. E. Bowers, H. Rong*, Integrating silicon photonics with complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor technologies, Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering, 1-17
