![]() ![]() ![]() Numerous optical-related technologies are emerging in control, intelligent computing, information security, etc. Faced with this ever-growing demand to expand the bandwidth and reduce the power consumption, photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are proposed to catalyze powerful new technologies, much like electronic circuits have in the past, with distinct advantages in scalable capacity, transparency, low latency, and low energy per bit. If you imagine every one of those gigabytes as a brick, 4.8 trillion of them would be able to build more than a thousand Great Walls in China. The global consumer Internet traffic grew fourfold from 2017 to 2022 with a compound annual growth rate of 31% and will reach 4.8 Zettabytes (ZB) per year by 2022, or 396 Exabytes (EB) per month. By leveraging the myriad inherent attractive features of integrated silicon photonics, this paper aims to inspire further development in incorporating PICs with on-chip lasers in, but not limited to, these applications for substantial performance gains, green solutions, and mass production. Then, the discussion focus is shifted towards system-wide applications that show great prospects in incorporating photonic integrated circuits (PIC) with on-chip lasers and active devices, namely, optical communications and interconnects, optical phased array-based LiDAR, sensors for chemical and biological analysis, integrated quantum technologies, and finally, optical computing. In the former, the different routes taken in integrating on-chip lasers are explored from different material systems to the chosen integration methodologies. ![]() We tackle this from two perspectives: device-level and system-wide points of view. This paper sheds light and conveys our perspective on the current state-of-the-art in different aspects of application-driven on-chip silicon lasers. At the heart of this platform is the light source, which in itself, has been the focus of research and development extensively. Integrated silicon photonics has sparked a significant ramp-up of investment in both academia and industry as a scalable, power-efficient, and eco-friendly solution. ![]()
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