Silicon Photonics
Chee Wei Wong
Optical Nanostructures Laboratory,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University
Room 220 Mudd Hall, 500 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027
cww2104@columbia.edu
ABSTRACT
The convergence of electronics and photonics in a monolithic silicon platform brings
about unprecedented information processing capacity. Silicon photonics yields a scalable
solution to the anticipated barriers of interconnection bandwidth and latency, input/output
density, and electronics/photonics partitioning. This is further propelled by our theoretical
understanding of optical nanostructures from first-principles and by successes in
nanoscale optical device nanofabrication, from which we can now practically prescribe
the properties of synthetic optical nanostructures. We will discuss a specific example of a
silicon optical nanostructure, which exhibits the possibility of large-scale CMOS
deployment of the resulting silicon nanophotonics technology.
BIOGRAPHY
Chee Wei Wong joined the Columbia faculty in 2004, after receiving his Sc.D. in
Mechanical Engineering (Optical Nanotechnology) at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) in 2003. He received the S.M. at MIT in 2001, the B.Sc. in
Mechanical Engineering (highest honors) at the University of California at Berkeley in
1999, and B.A. in Economics (highest honors) at the University of California at Berkeley
in 1999. He was a post-doctoral research associate at the MIT Microphotonics Center
prior to joining Columbia. His research interests are in optical nanostructures, such as
nonlinearities in nanophotonics, quantum dot interactions, high-density integrated optics,
silicon electronic-photonic integration, nanoelectromechanical systems, and
nanofabrication. He is the author of over 30 journal articles and patents in these areas,
and a member of APS, ASME, IEEE, OSA, and Sigma Xi.