| The thesis presents device level and system level integrated large-scale monolithic electro-optical solutions for wide range of applications, including: light detection and ranging (lidar), imaging, optical code division multiple access networks, optical pulse shaping and biomedical sensing. Silicon photonics technology is used to enable monolithic integration, designing novel devices and systems particularly in commercially available SOI CMOS process. Two system level examples are proposed and demonstrated: first, 8 x 8 optical phased array transceiver, the world's first monolithically integrated 2-dimensional optical phased array in a commercial CMOS process, and second, 128-bit spectral light processor of sub-picosecond optical short pulses. |
