Silicon CMOS Photonics

目前的硅光子学旨在减少光子器件的材料多样性，以实现电子-光子集成。与此相反，目前的研究集中在减少硅光子器件的基本功能统一方面的多样性。基于设计和原型的功能统一的设备和应用程序的基本设备的光计算架构，我们已经证明了订单数量级比传统的2位加法器的性能。这表明我们的新方法不仅对新一代Si光子学而且对未来的计算都有重大影响。

The current Si photonics aims to reduce the material diversity of photonic devices for electronic-photonic integration. In contrast the present research focuses reducing the device diversity in Si photonics in terms of unifying fundamental functions of photonic devices. Based on the design and prototype of a function-unified device and application of the fundamental device to an optical computing architecture, we have demonstrated orders-magnitude higher performances than conventional 2-bit adders. This has suggested our new approach has a significant impact not only on a new generation of Si photonics but also future computation.