Abstract

High performance semiconductor optoelectronic devices have powered coherent dense wavelength division multiplexing transceivers with a channel data rate from 100Gb/s to 1 Tb/s. As the coherent technology proliferates from the core network into metro and data center applications, higher integration level of these coherent optical components is highly desirable to reduced the cost of the coherent transceiver and optical port density. Recent advances in the semiconductor optoelectronic component technologies and the associated electro-optical integration platform, such as planar lightwave circuits, silicon photonics and compound semiconductor photonics integrated circuits, will be surveyed and discussed.

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