Optical Printed Circuit Board and VLSI Photonics

초록

This lecture presents a comprehensive review and overview on the cutting-edge frontier science and engineering of micro/nano-photonic integration for VLSI photonic application. It discusses on the theory, design, fabrication, and integration of micro/nano-photonic devices, circuits, chips, and networks in the form of “VLSI photonic integrated circuits”(VLSI-PICs) and “optical micro/nano-networks (O-MNNs)” of generic and application-specific nature on a platform that we call “optical printed circuit boards” (O-PCBs). These systems are designed to be compact, intelligent, high-speed, light-weight, environmentally friendly, low-powered, and low-cost as applicable for datacom, telecom, transportation, aero-space, avionics, bio/medical, sensor, and environmental systems.