A new combined research-curriculum development (CRCD) program at Boston University titled Photonics Research in Interdisciplinary Education (PRIDE) is described. The PRIDE program is designed to demonstrate vertically integrated curriculum development by incorporating three levels of modules into a wide range of existing courses. Examples of photonics research and knowledge are molded into modu...

This paper reviews a recent progress in terahertz wireless communications enabled by photonics technologies. After briefly summarizing transceiver configurations with electronics and photonics technologies, photonics-based approaches to achieving over 100-Gbit/s data rates are discussed. Then, some of our updated results on real-time wireless transmission experiments using discrete components a...

This paper describes Canadian research and industrial activity in the rapidly expanding field of photonics. The aim and methodology of the document is explained in the preamble. This is followed by a short overview of the document structure, which is organized into four main sections. The first section gives a basic introduction to the science and technology of photonics. Essentially this secti...

Integrated silicon photonics represents one of the more promising solutions to overcome the challenge of worsening on-chip communication performance in emerging multicore platforms. This paper highlights recent innovations in architectures, protocols, and techniques to enhance performance, dependability, and power-efficiency for integrated photonics. Keywords—integrated silicon photonics, photo...

Silicon photonics is the guiding of light in a planar arrangement of silicon-based materials to perform various functions. We focus here on the use of silicon photonics to create transmitters and receivers for fiber-optic telecommunications. As the need to squeeze more transmission into a given bandwidth, a given footprint, at a given cost increases, silicon photonics makes more and more econom...

I introduce a new field: electro-photonics, where the best of the electronic and photonic technologies are combined to increase the capacity, flexibility and energy efficiency of communications systems. OCIS codes: (060.0060) Fiber optics and optical communications; (070.2025) Discrete optical signal processing; (130.0250) Optoelectronics; (130.3120) Integrated optics devices; (130.4110) Modula...

a Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA b Quantum Photonics Laboratory, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA c Quantum Photonics Laboratory, College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL), University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA d Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New Yo...