Silicon Photonics for Rugged Embedded Transmitters

点击翻译按钮获取中文摘要

As the capacity of electronic circuits to process information continues to growth, and that better and more**numerous sensors are deployed to acquire data, the requirements on the bandwidth of interconnects increases**accordingly. Optical interconnects have demonstrated their ability to provide high bandwidths in challenging**environmental conditions. Reflex Photonics, a company from Kirkland, Quebec, has used optical technologies**to build compact and rugged embedded transceivers that can provide up to 150 Gb/s of transfer capacity. Their**products are based on directly modulated vertical cavity surface emitting lasers and multimode fibres.**However, this approach is reaching its limits in the maximum transmission speed it can achieve and in its**reach. Therefore, Reflex Photonics wants to investigate the potential of silicon photonics for its next generation**of products. Silicon photonics takes advantage of the manufacturing processes developed by the**microelectronic industry to implement complex high-performance integrated optical systems that can be**manufactured at low cost and large scales. The implementation of silicon photonic devices brings new**challenges, notably with regards to its integration with light sources and fibres, and thus Reflex Photonics**wants to establish a collaboration with Prof. Michaël Ménard at UQAM to explore potential solutions**compatible with its target applications and assess the commercial viability of the technology.