Abstract—Similarly to optical telecommunication, optical
fibers interconnect today computer systems performing very fast
communication between servers and supercomputers or between
racks in modern data centers. In the near future optical links will
move into the chip multiprocessors connecting tens or even
hundreds of processing elements and forming a photonic network
for communication between them. For these applications novel,
highly integrated and CMOS compatible devices need to be
developed. In this talk we will present some of our recent
silicon-based CMOS-compatible optical components for
application in computer chip-to-chip and on-chip
communication.