Silicon Photonics for High-Performance Computing and Beyond

<p>Silicon photonics is beginning to play an important role in driving innovations in communication and computation for an increasing number of applications from health care and biomedical sensors to autonomous driving datacenter networking and security. In recent years there has been a significant amount of effort in industry and academia to innovate design develop analyze optimize and fabricate systems employing silicon photonics shaping the future of not only Datacom and telecom technology but also high-performance computing and emerging computing paradigms such as optical computing and artificial intelligence. Different from existing books in this area <strong>Silicon Photonics for High-Performance Computing and Beyond</strong> presents a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art technology and research achievements in applying silicon photonics for communication and computation. It focuses on various design development and integration challenges reviews the latest advances spanning materials devices circuits systems and applications. <br>Technical topics discussed in the book include:</p><p>• Requirements and the latest advances in high-performance computing systems<br>• Device- and system-level challenges and latest improvements to deploy silicon photonics in computing systems<br>• Novel design solutions and design automation techniques for silicon photonic integrated circuits<br>• Novel materials devices and photonic integrated circuits on silicon<br>• Emerging computing technologies and applications based on silicon photonics</p><p><strong>Silicon Photonics for High-Performance Computing and Beyond</strong> presents a compilation of 19 outstanding contributions from academic and industry pioneers in the field. The selected contributions present insightful discussions and innovative approaches to understand current and future bottlenecks in high-performance computing systems and traditional computing platforms and the promise of silicon photonics to address those challenges. It is ideal for researchers and engineers working in the photonics electrical and computer engineering industries as well as academic researchers and graduate students (M.S. and Ph.D.) in computer science and engineering electronic and electrical engineering applied physics photonics and optics. </p>