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4600 JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY, VOL. 24, NO. 12, DECEMBER 2006 Silicon Photonics Bahram Jalali, Fellow, IEEE, and Sasan Fathpour, Member, IEEE Invited Paper Abstract—After dominating the electronics industry for remain before the benefits can come to fruition. We begin by decades, silicon is on the verge of becoming the material of choice describing the motivation for silicon photonics: both the tradi- for the photonics industry: the traditional stronghold of III–V tional argument that is still valid and the new insight that has semiconductors. Stimulated by a series of recent breakthroughs and propelled by increasing investments by governments and recently been gained. This will be followed by applications that the private sector, silicon photonics is now the most active are expected to be impacted. Next, this paper discusses recent discipline within the field of integrated optics. This paper provides developments in components ranging from passive devices to an overview of the state of the art in silicon photonics and modulators, detectors, and light amplifiers and sources. This outlines challenges that must be overcome before large-scale paper concludes by looking ahead at challenges as well as commercialization can occur. In particular, for realization of integration with CMOS very large scale integration (VLSI), silicon potentials of the technology that have not been fully recognized photonics must be compatible with the economics of silicon in the past. manufacturing and must operate within ther