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Myths and rumours of silicon photonics

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Low-cost manufacturing, high yields and seamless on-chip integration with electronics are often touted as the guaranteed benefits of silicon photonics, but is this really the case? Michael Hochberg and colleagues explain that the situation is much more complex in reality.

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  1. Tom Baehr-Jones is at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-2500, USA,

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  2. Michael Hochberg and Dennis Prather are in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Delaware, 140 Evans Hall, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA,

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  3. Steven Danziger is at BAE Systems North America, 9300 Wellington Rd, Manassas, Virginia 22209, USA,

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  4. Thierry Pinguet is at Luxtera, Carlsbad, California 92011, USA,

    Thierry Pinguet

  5. Patrick Lo Guo-Qiang is at the Institute of Microelectronics, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore,

    Patrick Lo Guo-Qiang

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Baehr-Jones, T., Pinguet, T., Lo Guo-Qiang, P. et al. Myths and rumours of silicon photonics. Nature Photon 6, 206–208 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2012.66

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