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Seminars and Colloquia
Silicon Photonics for High Energy Physics Applications
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Aula 131
Aula 131
Description
Silicon Photonics harnesses the potential of mature CMOS microelectronics processing technology to fabricate photonic integrated circuits in silicon.
Since about a decade, it has generated a lot of excitement and hype, promising to co-integrate data processing and communication functions into one chip or chipset.
It has resulted in some commercial successes but also in some resounding failures, reminding us of the difficulties associated with ramping up a new technology in a very dynamic and competitive context.
The High Energy Physics community, after the successful large scale deployment of silicon sensor technology, and judging from its exclusive reliance on silicon microelectronics for front end data processing, cannot ignore the advent of a possible new silicon building block for data transfer and associate it to the futuristic perspective of an all-silicon module.
This seminar will describe Silicon Photonics technology in a data communication perspective. It will compare it to more traditional means of optical data transport such as directly modulated VCSEL-based links. It will review the efforts ongoing at CERN to model and characterize the radiation hardness of the technology and will summarize the results obtained so far. It will finally conclude by discussing the applicability of Silicon Photonics to High Energy Physics, highlighting the potentials and challenges of the technology in our environment.
