This OFC session would be interesting to attend. Impressive list of people involved.

https://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/program-speakers/rump-session/

Tuesday, 07 March, 19:30 – 21:30

Is the Silicon Photonics Platform about to be Standardized, Diversified or Supplanted?

As the required raw single wavelength data transmission rates now exceed 200 Gbps, the use of the all-Silicon transmitter is threatened by a coven of materials: Thin Film Lithium Niobate, Organic Polymers, Barium Titanate, Plasmonic metals, and of course, InP.  Will Silicon Photonics follow the course of integrated circuits and bifurcate into the equivalent of CMOS (pure Si) and Bipolar (Si, SiGe, and everything else) variants? Can pure Si Silicon Photonics maintain commercial dominance?  Or will InP finally take over?  This year’s rump session will bring together industry provocateurs representing these three competing views and pit them against each other and the audience in an arena containing beer and live lions (the VCSEL community)!

Moderators

Daniel Kuchta, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
Michael Hochberg, Luminous Computing, USA

Provocateurs

Andreas Bechtolsheim, Arista Technologies, USA

Wim Bogaerts, Ghent University, Belgium

Adam Carter, OpenLight, USA

Lukas Czornomaz, Lumiphase, Switzerland

Christian Koos, KIT, Germany

Michal Lipson, Columbia University, USA

Marko Loncar, Harvard University, USA

Near Margalit, Broadcom, USA

Ed Preisler, Tower Jazz, USA

Martin Schell, Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany

Brian Welch, Cisco, USA

Anthony Yu, Global Foundries, USA