CMOS Compatible Platforms for Nonlinear Integrated Optics

Professor David Moss

Centre for Micro-Photonics, Swinburne University of Technology

For years all optical signal processing based on integrated nonlinear optics struggled to find killer applications, particularly in telecom, as well as from a performance perspective - the limitations of silicon due to two-photon absorption are well known. In the last half a dozen years or so, new CMOS compatible platforms have solved both - with the birth of micro-resonator based frequency combs, or "micro-combs". I'll give a perspective on their development and future prospects.

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