Photonic Integrated Circuits for Optical Communication

Abstract

Integrated optics especially on silicon wafer allows fabrication of highly complex Photonic Integrated Circuits (PIC) for optical communications. PICs are a promising approach to handle the quickly growing data traffic in the near future where pure copper based electronic will fail to satisfy the requirements of bandwidth and distance. For the realization of industrial applications an optical components library containing the individual passive and active devices, e.g. waveguides, filters, eo‐modulators, etc., for the PICs is needed.