Advanced materials for integrated optical waveguides Xingcun Colin Tong

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tong, Xingcun Colin, author.

Series:

Springer series in advanced microelectronics ; 1437-0387 v. 46

Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics 1437-0387 volume 46

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Optical wave guides.

Materials--Optical properties.

Materials.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cham Springer 2014

Summary:

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to integrated optical waveguides for information technology and data communications. Integrated coverage ranges from advanced materials, fabrication, and characterization techniques to guidelines for design and simulation. A concluding chapter offers perspectives on likely future trends and challenges. The dramatic scaling down of feature sizes has driven exponential improvements in semiconductor productivity and performance in the past several decades. However, with the potential of gigascale integration, size reduction is approaching a physical limitation due to the negative impact on resistance and inductance of metal interconnects with current copper-trace based technology. Integrated optics provides a potentially lower-cost, higher performance alternative to electronics in optical communication systems. Optical interconnects, in which light can be generated, guided, modulated, amplified, and detected, can provide greater bandwidth, lower power consumption, decreased interconnect delays, resistance to electromagnetic interference, and reduced crosstalk when integrated into standard electronic circuits. Integrated waveguide optics represents a truly multidisciplinary field of science and engineering, with continued growth requiring new developments in modeling, further advances in materials science, and innovations in integration platforms. In addition, the processing and fabrication of these new devices must be optimized in conjunction with the development of accurate and precise characterization and testing methods. Students and professionals in materials science and engineering will find Advanced Materials for Integrated Optical Waveguides to be an invaluable reference for meeting these research and development goals. Suitable as an in-depth introduction for students and training groups Serves as a comprehensive, one-stop reference for researchers and other materials science and engineering professionals Covers a variety of advanced optical waveguide materials and fabrication techniques, including optical fibers, semiconductors, electro-optic materials, glasses, silicon-on-insulator technology, polymers, hollow waveguides, and metamaterials

Contents:

Fundamentals and design guides for optical waveguides

Characterization methodologies of optical waveguides

Optoelectronic devices integrated with optical waveguides

Optical fibers

Semiconductor waveguides

Silicon-on-insulator waveguides

Glass waveguides

Electro-optic waveguides

Polymer based optical waveguides

Hollow waveguides

Metamaterial optical waveguides

Perspectives and future trends

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 21, 2013)

ISBN:

9783319015507

3319015508

OCLC:

862945712

Access Restriction:

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