Circuit-level convergence of electronics and photonics:basic concepts and recent advances  

作　　者：Min Tan Yuhang Wang Ken Xingze Wang Yuan Yu Xinliang Zhang 

机构地区：[1]School of Optical and Electronic Information,Huazhong University of Science and Technology,Wuhan 430074,China [2]Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics,Huazhong University of Science and Technology,Wuhan 430074,China [3]School of Physics,Huazhong University of Science and Technology,Wuhan 430074,China

出　　处：《Frontiers of Optoelectronics》2022年第2期17-33,共17页光电子前沿（英文版）

基　　金：This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2018YFA0704400).

摘　　要：Integrated photonics is widely regarded as an important post-Moore’s law research direction.However,it suffers from intrinsic limitations,such as lack of control and satisfactory photonic memory,that cannot be solved in the optical domain and must be combined with electronics for practical use.Inevitably,electronics and photonics will converge.The photonic fabrication and integration technology is gradually maturing and electronics-photonics convergence(EPC)is experiencing a transition from device integration to circuit design.We derive a conceptual framework consisting of regulator,oscillator,and memory for scalable integrated circuits based on the fundamental concepts of purposeful behavior in cybernetics,entropy in information theory,and symmetry breaking in physics.Leveraging this framework and emulating the successes experienced by electronic integrated circuits,we identify the key building blocks for the integrated circuits for EPC and review the recent advances.

关 键 词：Integrated photonics Electronics-photonics convergence(EPC) SCALABILITY Stability Feedback 

分 类 号：TN25[电子电信—物理电子学]