Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Silicon Photonics: Disruptive and Ready for Prime Time
1.2 Silicon Photonics: An Introduction
1.3 The Significance of Silicon Photonics
1.4 The Status of Silicon Photonics
1.5 Silicon Photonics: Market Opportunities and Industry Disruption
Chapter 2. Layers and the Evolution of Communications Networks
2.3 The Telecom Network—Layer 4
2.7 Telecom and Datacom Industry Challenges
2.8 Silicon Photonics: Why the Technology Is Important for All the Layers
Chapter 3. The Long March to a Silicon-Photonics Union
3.1 Moore’s Law and 50 Years of the Chip Industry
3.2 How Photonics Can Benefit Semiconductors
3.3 Silicon Photonics: From Building Blocks to Superchips
3.4 The Building Blocks of Silicon Photonics Integrated Circuits
Chapter 4. The Route to Market for Silicon Photonics
4.1 The Technology Adoption Curve
4.2 A Brief History of Silicon Photonics
4.3 Four Commercial Silicon Photonics Product Case Studies
4.4 What Silicon Photonics Needs to Go Mainstream
4.5 100-Gb Market Revenues Are Insufficient for Silicon Photonics
4.6 The Silicon Photonics Ecosystem: A State-of-the-Industry Report
Chapter 5. Metro and Long-Haul Network Growth Demands Exponential Progress
5.1 The Changing Nature of Telecom
5.2 Internet Businesses Have the Fastest Network Traffic Growth
5.3 The Market Should Expect Cost-per-Transmitted-Bit to Rise
5.4 Data Center Interconnect Equipment
5.5 The Role of Silicon Photonics for Data Center Interconnect
5.6 Tackling Continual Traffic Growth
Chapter 6. The Data Center: A Central Cog in the Digital Economy
6.1 Internet Content Providers Are Driving the New Economy
6.2 Cloud Computing: Another Growth Market
6.3 The Expansive Build-Out of Data Centers
6.4 Energy Consumption Poses the Greatest Data Center Challenge
6.5 Silicon Photonics Can Address Data Center Challenges
Chapter 7. Data Center Architectures and Opportunities for Silicon Photonics
7.2 Internet Content Providers Are the New Drivers of Photonics
7.3 Data Center Networking Architectures and Their Limitations
7.4 Embedding Optics to Benefit Systems
7.5 Data Center Input–Output Challenges
7.6 Adding Photonics to Ultralarge-Scale Chips
Chapter 8. The Likely Course of Silicon Photonics
8.2 The Market Opportunities for Silicon Photonics: The Present to 2026
Appendix 1. Optical Communications Primer
A1.2 Optical Component Technologies
A1.3 Attenuation Characteristics of Fiber
Appendix 2. Optical Transmission Techniques for Layer 4 Networks
A2.1 The Three Classes of Optical Channel
A2.2 Single-Carrier 100-Gb Transmission With Coherent Detection
A2.3 Improving Spectral Efficiency