Integrated Rare Earth Lasers for Silicon Photonics

激光和光子设备在许多关键方面影响了我们的生活，包括使高速光波信号成为互联网的燃料。现在，经过几十年的研究，所谓的“硅光子学”有望通过降低成本、提高性能和可扩展性来显著促进互联网和数据通信。硅光电子(SiP)利用现有数十亿美元的微电子制造基础设施，提供高度紧凑、廉价和节能的集成光电微系统。由于其在高速光电数据网络中的应用日益广泛，预计在未来十年内，sip市场将增长到数十亿美元。此外，sip有望在传感、成像、测距、医疗以及先进的军事和空间应用中无处不在。

Lasers and photonic devices have influenced our lives in many critical ways, including enabling the high speed lightwave signals that fuel the internet. Now, after decades of research, so-called “silicon photonics” is poised to significantly advance internet and data communication through decreased cost and increased performance and scalability. Silicon photonics (SiP) leverages the existing multi-billion-dollar microelectronics fabrication infrastructure to provide highly compact, inexpensive, and energy-efficient integrated optoelectronic microsystems. As a result of its growing application in high-speed optoelectronic data networks, the SiP market is expected to increase to several $B in the next decade. Further, SiP promises to be ubiquitous in sensing, imaging, ranging, medical, and advanced military and space applications.