Silicon Photonics Design Handbook: Photonic Integrated Circuits, Passive Components, Active Devices, and Optical Links for Graduate Students and Practicing Engineers - Softcover

Y. Johnston, Keith

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798164835002

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Design silicon photonic circuits that work on the chip, in the package, and across the link.

Silicon photonics is moving from research labs into data centers, sensing, and computing. Most books explain the physics or the devices, but few take you through the whole path from a waveguide to a working optical link. This handbook does.

Inside, you will learn how to:

• Calculate guided modes, loss, dispersion, and nonlinear absorption in waveguides
• Design couplers, splitters, interferometers, rings, filters, and Bragg gratings
• Engineer fiber coupling, phase control, modulators, photodetectors, and receivers
• Model lasers and amplifiers, including noise, linewidth, and heat
• Predict how fabrication variation hits yield, and how to tune it away
• Build an end-to-end link budget covering packaging, testing, and energy per bit

Why readers choose it:

• Derivations and worked examples in every chapter show each result step by step
• Practice problems with verified answers let you check your understanding as you go
• Key-equation summaries make the book a reference you will return to
• 30 clear figures across 16 chapters
• Built for two audiences: graduate students who need rigorous foundations, and practicing engineers who need numbers they can use

Stop piecing the subject together from scattered papers. Learn it in one structured, carefully checked volume.

Buy now and start reading today. Your next design will be better for it.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798164835002
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 501