Silicon Photonic Computing (Volume-I)

Artificial Intelligence is advancing faster than the hardware designed to power it.

As Moore's Law slows, data centers consume unprecedented amounts of energy, and the limits of electronic computation become increasingly visible, a new paradigm is emerging-one built not on electrons, but on light.

Silicon Photonic Computing - Volume I: Foundations of Integrated Photonics and Optical Computing provides a comprehensive exploration of the science, mathematics, and engineering principles behind one of the most promising technologies of the post-silicon era.

Beginning with the collapse of classical transistor scaling and the rise of the memory wall, this volume guides readers through wave optics, integrated photonics, waveguide engineering, coherent light sources, optical modulation, photodetection, ring resonators, Mach-Zehnder interferometers, and the mathematical foundations of photonic matrix multiplication.

Combining rigorous analysis, intuitive explanations, engineering case studies, and advanced computational architectures, this book reveals how light can be harnessed to perform the massive linear algebra operations that underpin modern artificial intelligence.

Whether you are an engineer, researcher, graduate student, semiconductor professional, or technology enthusiast, this volume offers a roadmap to understanding the devices and principles that may define the next generation of computing.

The future of intelligence may not be electronic.

It may be optical.