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Silicon Photonics

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Silicon Photonics is no more an emerging research topic but is an actual technology with commercial products already available on the market. Quantum confinement of carriers or spatial localization of photons allows enhancing dramatically and widening the scope and potential of silicon photonics.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by ITPAR and the Italian Foreign Ministry.

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  1. Nanoscience Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

    Lorenzo Pavesi

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  1. Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

  2. Engineering Physics and Electronics and Communication Engineering, Institute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Indrani Bhattacharya

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Pavesi, L. (2015). Silicon Photonics. In: Lakshminarayanan, V., Bhattacharya, I. (eds) Advances in Optical Science and Engineering. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 166. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2367-2_2

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