Silicon Photonics Design: From Devices to Systems

Excellent practical book for grad students, postdocs and professors alike.

Great book for photonic design!

The book has a few rough edges and sometimes gives the appearance of a hastily put together series of notes. However, it provides a 1st class introduction to a world of Silicon photonics in a subtle throwback style. Those old enough to have glanced through academic books that fed the imagination of passionate electronics scholars during the 70s/80s explosion in microelectronics technology may get that sense when reading the book.1 mighty tip: The University of British Columbia, Canada ran (still running?) a very interesting 8-week online course that cements the theory and methodology of Silicon Photonics design taught in this book. The organisation and delivery of this course was to my surprise more than simply outstanding. I sat through the course in 2015, the experience was wholesome and enlightening, and worth every penny!

The book has tons of good reference designs and simulation scripts. This the perfect starting point to design every silicon photonics system you have in mind.