Silicon Photonics: Fueling the Next Information Revolution(paperback)

Silicon photonics uses chip-making techniques to fabricate photonic circuits. The emerging technology is coming to market at a time of momentous change. The need of the Internet content providers to keep scaling their data centers is becoming increasing challenging, the chip industry is facing a future without Moore’s law, while telcos must contend with a looming capacity crunch due to continual traffic growth.

Each of these developments is significant in its own right. Collectively, they require new thinking in the design of chips, optical components, and systems. Such change also signals new business opportunities and disruption.

Notwithstanding challenges, silicon photonics’ emergence is timely because it is the future of several industries. For the optical industry, the technology will allow designs to be tackled in new ways. For the chip industry, silicon photonics will become the way of scaling post-Moore’s law. New system architectures enabled by silicon photonics will improve large-scale computing and optical communications.

Silicon Photonics: Fueling the Next Information Revolution outlines the history and status of silicon photonics. The book discusses the trends driving the datacom and telecom industries, the main but not the only markets for silicon photonics. In particular, developments in optical transport and the data center are discussed as are the challenges. The book details the many roles silicon photonics will play, from wide area networks down to the chip level. Silicon photonics is set to change the optical components and chip industries; this book explains how.

• Captures the latest research assessing silicon photonics development and prospects
• Demonstrates how silicon photonics addresses the challenges of managing bandwidth over distance and within systems
• Explores potential applications of SiP, including servers, datacenters, and Internet of Things

矽光子學利用晶片製造技術來製造光子電路。這項新興技術正值變革的時刻進入市場。互聯網內容提供商需要不斷擴展其數據中心，這變得越來越具挑戰性；晶片行業面臨著沒有摩爾定律的未來；而電信業必須應對持續的流量增長所帶來的容量壓力。

這些發展各自都具有重要意義。總體而言，它們需要在晶片、光學元件和系統設計方面進行新的思考。這樣的變革也預示著新的商機和顛覆。

儘管面臨著挑戰，矽光子學的出現正是時候，因為它是幾個行業的未來。對於光學行業來說，這項技術將使設計能夠以新的方式進行。對於晶片行業來說，矽光子學將成為摩爾定律後的擴展方式。由矽光子學實現的新系統架構將改善大規模計算和光通信。

《矽光子學：推動下一個信息革命》概述了矽光子學的歷史和現狀。該書討論了推動數據通信和電信行業的趨勢，這是矽光子學的主要市場之一。特別是，書中討論了光傳輸和數據中心的發展以及相關挑戰。該書詳細介紹了矽光子學在廣域網絡到晶片級別的各種角色。矽光子學將改變光學元件和晶片行業，本書解釋了其原理。

本書的特點包括：
- 捕捉評估矽光子學發展和前景的最新研究
- 示範矽光子學如何應對距離和系統內帶寬管理的挑戰
- 探索矽光子學的潛在應用，包括服務器、數據中心和物聯網