Silicon Photonics Design Handbook: Waveguides, Modulators, Detectors, and Foundry Integration for CMOS-Compatible Optical Circuits

By: Y. Clay, Ivan

Most photonics books tell you what a device does. This one computes it - and then checks its own work.

This handbook takes you from the wave equation to a packaged, sixteen-channel optical link, and every number along the way is calculated rather than quoted. Where two chapters disagree, the book says so and resolves it in print.

Inside you will find:

16 chapters spanning waveguides, couplers, resonators, gratings, fiber coupling, modulators, thermal tuning, detectors, light sources, process and yield, simulation, and packaging154 worked examples and 183 practice problems with complete answers343 equations, 216 tables, and 20 figures built from the book's own computed data

You will learn why two grating couplers consume 46 percent of a link budget while two kilometers of fiber cost almost nothing; why a one-millimeter wire bond - not the modulator - limits a transmitter to a third of its bandwidth; why the adhesive holding a fiber is a larger error source than the machine that places it; and why a laser's junction temperature, not any optical quantity, decides how long the module lasts.

Written for graduate students and practicing engineers who need results they can defend.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJV5SMPW
• ISBN13: 9798174461543
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 562 Pages
• Weight: 2.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"