Opto-Electronic Integration Technologies toward Light-Speed Data Processing

Abstract

We review opto-electronic integration technologies for creating a new computing platform with a wide bandwidth and low energy consumption. The development of large-scale silicon photonics circuits and ultra-low energy nanophotonic devices will allow for diverse types of photonic-information processing. This article introduces the technologies for high bandwidth density optical interconnection toward 1 Byte-per-FLOP and presents a path to opto-electronic integrated accelerators that will exceed current digital electronic systems by ＞10 2 in compute density and energy efficiency.