Recent Advances in Photonic Integrated Circuits for Optical Fiber Communications

Recent proliferations of smart phones and multimedia network appliances have escalated the traffic of speedily delivery of multimedia contents from the remote data centers to the end users through the broadband optic fiber infrastructures. The intrinsic broadband capability and scalability of semiconductor photonic devices and photonic integrated circuits have being able to meet this ever increasing needs. In this talk, we will review recent advances in the semiconductor photonic components, photonic integrated circuits and the integration methodologies implemented on the traditional compound semiconductor as well as the emerging silicon-based platform.