CMOS Integrated Nano-Photonics is now a Commercial Technology

Summary form only given. It has become apparent, that silicon technology can provide many of the requirements for nano-photonic integration, including many of the common opto-electronic components. Intel and Luxtera have both recently announced 10 Gb/sec optical modulators, integrated into silicon. Actually, all the other customarily required opto-electronic components are available now in silicon, as well. Continuous wave optical power can be provided from off-chip, just as dc power is currently provided from off-chip. The first commercial applications are emerging, are optical 10 Gb/s Ethernet, and Infiniband, a standard for communicating among multi-processors in an array, and in general, optical substitutes for electrical cables.