Education
Integrated Photonics Plug-and-Play
A new integrated-photonics education kit seeks to engage and train undergraduate students for the growing silicon photonics job market.
UCSD students manipulating the IPEK in a laboratory class. [David Baillot/UCSD]
Silicon photonics focuses on integrating complex optical functionality into a chip using existing CMOS microelectronic fabrication processes, and thereby leveraging those processes for high-volume production of low-cost, small-form-factor devices. Such devices—silicon photonic integrated circuits (PICs)—consist of planar arrangements of basic optical building blocks, interconnected by optical waveguides on a substrate.
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