Hybrid integration platform based on silica-on-silicon planar lightwave circuit

摘要

While silica waveguide PLC products have been deployed in various systems and applications, hybrid integration of semiconductor opto-electronic devices on silica-based planar lightwave circuit (PLC) has become the mainstream platform for small form factor, low-cost and high volume integrated transceiver modules. One of the main benefits of hybrid integration is the wafer-scale process, which greatly reduces chip/module size and assembly cost. This paper reviews the development of this technology, and as an example, presents a hybrid integrated transmitter with four wavelengths on silica PLC chip for LX4 and 10GbE applications.