Large progress has been made in the field of silicon photonics since its inception in the late eighties of last century. An intriguing and challenging field of research has evolved with time into a flourishing industry supporting and propelling the growth of data centers and distribute computing known as "the Cloud."

This paper covers a silicon photonics technology platform that leverages a commercial semiconductor supply chain for the manufacturing of high performance optical transceivers for high performance computing and hyper-scale data-center applications.

We assess the reliability of a complete silicon integrated photonics platform through a suite of reliability assurance and qualification tests. We demonstrate high reliability of each component of the silicon photonics optical transceiver.

We report on the development of Luxtera's silicon photonics platform for the production of high-speed optical transceivers using a hybrid-integrated approach.

In this paper we discuss design and characterization of silicon-photonics-based 100 Gbps (4x26 Gbps) transceivers for parallel single mode fiber communication. We also address some key underlying technologies including silicon photonics wafer processing, photonic device libraries, light source integration and packaging technologies.

In this paper we address silicon photonics based optical transceiver technology for applications in advanced data communications such as high performance computing and hyperscale datacenters.

In this paper we address key design and performance aspects of high-speed optical transceivers based on silicon photonics technology.