Test-station for flexible semi-automatic wafer-level silicon photonics testing

As the need for data links with ever greater bandwidth continues to grow, optical interconnects are becoming an attractive alternative to electrical links. The cost and performance of optical transceivers are key elements that determine the economic viability of optical interconnects. This paper presents developing an active silicon photonics platform that leverages existing CMOS infrastructure and processing techniques to provide a wide range of passive and active optical devices on silicon wafers.

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