ABSTRACT
Silicon, so far the mainstay of the electronics industry, is fast
becoming the triggering material of a photonics-based computa-
tional era. This chapter is intended to provide readers with the
recent developments in the field of silicon photonics, specifically
concerning the heterogeneous integration of group III-V materials
on silicon. This approach-unfolding into several basic building
blocks such as lasers, photodetectors, and modulators, as well as
novel proofs of concepts-is paving the way toward a brand-new
optoelectronics showing a considerable integration potential with
scalable, cost-effective complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
(CMOS) technology and silicon-based photonic integrated circuits
(PICs).
