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Increasing demand for low cost and high bandwidth communications, whether between metro centers or in future high performance processors, has led to continued and increased research activity into photonic integrated circuits, components and systems capable of generating, transmitting and receiving data signals at ever faster rates. As a result, major manufacturers of networking hardware and equipment continue to fund research into components capable of generating, modulating, transmitting, routing and detecting optical signals, often with the goal of achieving such functionality within devices that can be manufactured with CMOS-compatible manufacturing.

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With the goal of ultimately reaching ultra-high component densities to further minimize per-unit production costs, researchers continue to investigate photonic integrated circuits to deliver key functions required by next generation on-chip optical communication systems.

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Selected Communications Publications Featuring Lumerical

	DJ Sirbuly, M Law, H Yan, and P Yang, “Semiconductor nanowires for subwavelength photonics integration," The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 109 (32), 15190-15213.
	J.A. Dionne et al., "Silicon-Based Plasmonics for On-Chip Photonics," Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal, 16 (1) 295 - 306 (2010).
	S. P. Anderson, and P. M. Fauchet, “Ultra-low energy switches based on silicon photonic crystals for on-chip optical interconnects,” Proc. SPIE 7606, 76060R (2010).
	Y. Halioua et al., "Hybrid InP-based photonic crystal lasers on silicon on insulator wires," Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 201119 (2009), DOI:10.1063/1.3265743
	Fei Yi et al., "Electro-optic modulator with exceptional power-size performance enabled by transparent conducting electrodes, "Optics Express, 18 (7), 6779-6796 (2010)

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