Silicon photonics for telecommunications and biomedicine

437 Pages·2011·10.984 MB·English

by  Sasan Fathpour, B Jalali

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Silicon
Photonics
Telecommunications
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and Biomedicine

Silicon
Photonics
Telecommunications
for
Biomedicine
and
Edited by
Sasan Fathpour
Bahram Jalali
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Contents
Preface ix
Editors xiii
Contributors xv
Chapter 1 Silicon Photonics—The Evolution of Integration 1
Graham T. Reed, William R. Headley,
Goran Z. Mashanovich, Frederic Y. Gardes,
David J. Thomson, and Milan M. Milosevic
Chapter 2 Silicon Plasmonic Waveguides 51
Richard Soref, Sang-Yeon Cho, Walter Buchwald,
Robert E. Peale, and Justin Cleary
Chapter 3 Stress and Piezoelectric Tuning of Silicon’s Optical
Properties 77
Kevin K. Tsia, Sasan Fathpour, and Bahram Jalali
Chapter 4 Pulse Shaping and Applications of Two-Photon
Absorption 107
Ozdal Boyraz
Chapter 5 Theory of Silicon Raman Amplifiers and Lasers 131
Michael Krause, Hagen Renner, and Ernst Brinkmeyer
Chapter 6 Silicon Photonics for Biosensing Applications 201
Jenifer L. Lawrie and Sharon M. Weiss
Chapter 7 Mid-Wavelength Infrared Silicon Photonics for High-
Power and Biomedical Applications 231
Varun Raghunathan, Sasan Fathpour, and Bahram Jalali
Chapter 8 Novel III-V on Silicon Growth Techniques 255
Diana L. Huffaker and Jun Tatebayashi
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Chapter 9 Hybrid III-V Lasers on Silicon 297
Jun Yang, Zetian Mi, and Pallab Bhattacharya
Chapter 10 Three-Dimensional Integration of CMOS and
Photonics 341
Prakash Koonath, Tejaswi Indukuri, and Bahram Jalali
Chapter 11 Nonlinear Photovoltaics and Energy Harvesting 363
Sasan Fathpour, Kevin K. Tsia, and Bahram Jalali
Chapter 12 Computer-Aided Design for CMOS Photonics 383
Attila Mekis, Daniel Kucharski, Gianlorenzo Masini, and
Thierry Pinguet