Abstract

Aiming at the convergence of photonics and electronics technologies, a large-scale national project on silicon photonics was launched in Japan in 2012. In this presentation, the activities in this national project are presented, focusing on the development of silicon photonics circuits and the realization of an optical I/O core, a 5 mm square silicon-based chip with integrated quantum dot lasers. The implementation of this project has paved the way towards ultra-small transceiver chips for on-board optics (OBO) and co-packaged optics (CPO) technologies.

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