Silicon Photonics Design
From Devices to Systems

This hands-on introduction to silicon photonics engineering equips students with everything they need to begin creating foundry-ready designs.

Lukas Chrostowski (Author), Michael Hochberg (Author)

9781107085459, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 12 March 2015

437 pages, 250 colour illus.
25.6 x 18.2 x 2.3 cm, 1.02 kg

'This publication's wide variety of topics should stimulate people to read and discover the sensing potential of optical fiber and devices. This book is a comprehensive introduction to the field with a strong practical focus that undergraduate and graduate students will find useful. It could also serve as a reference for scientists and engineers who are working in the optical fiber sensing area.' Lisa Tongning Li, Optics and Photonics News

From design and simulation through to testing and fabrication, this hands-on introduction to silicon photonics engineering equips students with everything they need to begin creating foundry-ready designs. In-depth discussion of real-world issues and fabrication challenges ensures that students are fully equipped for careers in industry. Step-by-step tutorials, straightforward examples, and illustrative source code fragments guide students through every aspect of the design process, providing a practical framework for developing and refining key skills. Offering industry-ready expertise, the text supports existing PDKs for CMOS UV-lithography foundry services (OpSIS, ePIXfab, imec, LETI, IME and CMC) and the development of new kits for proprietary processes and clean-room based research. Accompanied by additional online resources to support students, this is the perfect learning package for senior undergraduate and graduate students studying silicon photonics design, and academic and industrial researchers involved in the development and manufacture of new silicon photonics systems.

Part I. Silicon Photonics - Introduction: 1. Fabless Silicon Photonics: 1.1 Introduction
1.2 Silicon photonics - the next fabless semiconductor industry
1.3 Applications
1.4 Technical challenges and the state of the art
1.5 Opportunities
2. Modelling and Design Approaches: 2.1 Optical Waveguide Mode Solver
2.2 Wave Propagation
2.3 Optoelectronic models
2.4 Microwave Modelling
2.5 Thermal Modelling
2.6 Photonic Circuit Modelling
2.7 Physical Layout
2.8 Software Tools Integration
Part II. Silicon Photonics - Passive Components: 3. Optical Materials and Waveguides: 3.1 Silicon-on-Insulator
3.2 Waveguides
3.3 Bent waveguides
3.4 Code Listings
3.5 Problems
4. Fundamental Building Blocks: 4.1 Directional couplers
4.2 Y-Branch
4.3 Mach-Zehnder Interferometer
4.4 Ring resonators
4.5 Waveguide Bragg Grating Filters
4.6 Code Listings
4.7 Problems
5. Optical I/O: 5.1 The challenge of optical coupling to silicon photonic chips
5.2 Grating Coupler
5.3 Edge Coupler
5.4 Polarization
5.5 Code Listings
5.6 Problems
Part III. Silicon Photonics - Active Components: 6. Modulators: 6.1 Plasma Dispersion E
6.2 PN Junction Phase Shifter
6.3 Micro-ring Modulators
6.4 Forward-biased PIN Junction
6.5 Active Tuning
6.6 Thermo-Optic Switch
6.7 Code Listings
6.8 Problems
7. Detectors: 7.1 Performance Parameters
7.2 Fabrication
7.3 Types of detectors
7.4 Design Considerations
7.5 Detector modelling
7.5.2 Electronic Simulations
7.6 Code Listings
7.7 Problems
8. Lasers: 8.1 External Lasers
8.2 Laser Modelling
8.3 Co-Packaging
8.4 Hybrid Silicon Lasers
8.5 Monolithic Lasers
8.6 Alternative Light Sources
8.7 Problems
Part IV. Silicon Photonics - System Design: 9. Photonic Circuit Modelling: 9.1 Need for photonic circuit modelling
9.2 Components for System Design
9.3 Compact Models
9.4 Directional Coupler - Compact Model
9.5 Ring Modulator - Circuit Model
9.6 Grating Coupler - S Parameters
9.7 Code Listings
10. Tools and Techniques: 10.1 Process Design Kit (PDK)
10.2 Mask Layout
11. Fabrication: 11.1 Fabrication Non-Uniformity
11.2 Problems
12. Testing and Packaging: 12.1 Electrical and Optical Interfacing
12.2 Automated Optical Probe Stations
12.3 Design for Test
13. Silicon Photonic System Example: 13.1 Wavelength Division Multiplexed Transmitter.

Subject Areas: Applied optics [TTB], Electronics & communications engineering [TJ], Optical physics [PHJ]