Silicon photonic integrated circuits and lasers
John BOWERS : Director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency and Kavli Professor of Nanotechnology, University of California Santa Barbara, USA

A number of important breakthroughs in the past decade have focused attention
on Si as a photonic platform. We review here recent progress in this field,
focusing on efforts to make lasers, amplifiers, modulators and photo detectors
on or in silicon. We also describe progress in silicon photonic integrated
circuits. The impact active silicon photonic integrated circuits could have on
interconnects telecommunications and on silicon electronics is reviewed.