Silicon photonics has developed into a mainstream technology driven by advances in optical communications. The current generation has led to a proliferation of integrated photonic devices from thousands to millions - mainly in the form of communication transceivers for data centers. Products in many exciting applications, such as sensing and computing, are around the corner. What will it take to increase the proliferation of silicon photonics from millions to billions of units shipped? What will the next generation of silicon photonics look like? What are the common threads in the integration and fabrication bottlenecks that silicon photonic applications face, and which emerging technologies can solve them? This perspective article is an attempt to answer such questions. We chart the generational trends in silicon photonics technology, drawing parallels from the generational definitions of CMOS technology. We identify the crucial challenges that must be solved to make giant strides in CMOS-foundry-compatible devices, circuits, integration, and packaging. We identify challenges critical to the next generation of systems and applications - in communication, signal processing, and sensing. By identifying and summarizing such challenges and opportunities, we aim to stimulate further research on devices, circuits, and systems for the silicon photonics ecosystem.

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Silicon Photonics -- Roadmapping the Next Generation

Enabling cost-effective and power-efficient laser source on a silicon photonics (SiPh) platform is a major goal that has been highly sought after. In the past two decades, tremendous effort has been made to develop various on-chip integration techniques to enhance SiPh circuits with efficient light-emitting materials. Here we review our recent advancements in hybrid flip-chip integration of III-V lasers on a 300-mm monolithic SiPh platform. By leveraging advanced complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) manufacturing processes, we have demonstrated wafer-scale laser attach based on a precisely controlled cavity formed on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate. The laser integration process is aided by precise mechanical alignment features on the SiPh wafer and high-precision fiducials on the laser. Efficient laser-to-SiPh-circuit butt-coupling with optical power up to 20mW was demonstrated through wafer- and module-level characterizations. Key performance metrics including side-mode suppression ratio, mode-hopping, and relative intensity noise were characterized after laser integration. In addition, early reliability assessments were performed on laser-attached SOI wafers and Si submount assemblies to understand the long-term performance stability of the lasers on the monolithic platform. To further enhance the performance of the laser-integrated chip, we explored alternative spot-size converters that could simultaneously enable improved coupling efficiency and relaxed fabrication tolerance, thus showing great promise over traditional designs. 

3D Integrated Laser Attach Technology on a 300-mm Monolithic CMOS Silicon Photonics Platform

This paper details a monolithic approach to the integration of photonic systems. Polarization diverse photonic components are fabricated in a 45nm silicon-on-insulator microelectronics process flow which includes digital and RFCMOS, high performance analog mixed signal, mmWave components, electro-thermal and electro-optic control elements, and fiber and laser attach. This results in a single chip optical transceiver solution.

Monolithic Silicon Photonics

We demonstrate a method for improving Ge-on-Si avalanche photodiode (APD) sensitivity by varying the geometry of the charge and multiplication regions to achieve lower noise current. The APD's, fabricated in a commercial silicon photonic process, demonstrate an improved signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at 940nm wavelength.

Ge-on-Si APD in Commercial Foundry Process for Near-Infrared Sensing

We report the 300-mm wafer-scale performance of Silicon-contacted Ge-on-Si lateral separate absorption charge multiplication avalanche photodetectors, demonstrating sub-µA dark currents consistently across the wafer, with responsivities of 6 A/W at 22 GHz bandwidth or 2 A/W at 35 GHz.

Low dark current and high responsivity Si-contacted Ge-on-Si avalanche photodetectors in a 300-mm Si photonics platform

We demonstrate a waveguide-integrated germanium-on-silicon avalanche photodiode in a monolithic silicon photonics technology, with TE responsivity of 26 A/W at 1310 nm wavelength at −5 V operating bias with a 3-dB bandwidth of > 30 GHz. © 2022 The Author(s)

High Performance Avalanche Photodiode in a Monolithic Silicon Photonics Technology

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