Abstract
Application of silicon photonics is
becoming very widespread in high bandwidth
optical communication. The electronic-photonic
cointegration is a prerequisite for bringing out
the best performance out of photonics. This
paper gives a view on the different challenges in
silicon photonics and the reason why simulation
is important for predicting the total behavior of
the silicon photonic system. It gives an awareness
to the existing tools for simulation and how they
should advance to help the electronic-photonic
designers.
Keywords – Silicon Photonics, Photonics,
Simulation Tools, CMOS, Co-integration, EDA
Silicon photonics is powerful enough to
bring about a revolution in the world of photonics.
Its compatibility through CMOS fabrication
skill offers benefits, like minimum cost, highvolume
and dependable manufacturing with
a finer accuracy. It has got wide range of
applications in advanced instrumentation used
in telecommunication and data communication.
The entire device can be integrated on the same
chip along with the CMOS based electronics.
This will reduce packaging density and price. The
addition of a photonic layer and interconnects
hold the promise of solving speed constraints in
future computing and chip platforms as stated by
John Bowers