1 results about "Cmos electronics" patented technology

Silicon photonics adds optical functionality to electronic integrated circuits allowing leveraging CMOS fabrication processes, integration of CMOS electronics discretely and integration of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) or Micro-Opto-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MOEMS) elements. Further, silicon photonics allows hybrid or monolithic integration of semiconductor photodetectors for optical receivers in conjunction with the passive silicon photonics and active elements such as semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) and laser diodes (LDs) for coherent detection receivers for next generation systems. Accordingly, it would be beneficial to provide network designers with silicon photonic receivers for wavelength division multiplexed networks using direct or coherent detection which can dynamically select one or more channels from a large number of incoming channels whilst addressing the inherent issues that silicon photonics and other optical waveguide technologies exhibit such as polarisation dependency.