Future Directions in Silicon Photonics, Volume 101 in the Semiconductors and Semimetals series, highlights new advances in the field, with this updated volume presenting the latest developments as discussed by esteemed leaders in the field silicon photonics.

1. Building blocks of silicon photonics Laurent Vivien, Delphine Marris-Morini, Eric Cassan, Carlos Alonso-Ramos, Daniel Benedikovic, Xavier Le Roux, Diego Perez-Galacho, Mathias Berciano, Guillaume Marcaud, Lucas Deniel, Christian Lafforgue, JianHao Zhang, Samuel Serna, Vladyslav Vakarin, Alicia Ruiz-Caridad, Pedro Damas, Phuong T. Do, Dorian Doser, Joan-Manel Ramirez, Elena Duran Valdeiglesias, Sylvain Guerber, Maurin Douix, Jocelyn Durel, Ismael Charlet, Elodie Ghegin, Stéphane Monfray, Sébastien Cremer, Charles Baudot, Frédéric Boeuf, Léopold Virot, Philippe Rodriguez, Fabrice Nemouchi, Christophe Jany, Badhise Ben Bakir, Loic Sanchez, Franck Fournel, Pierre Brianceau, Karim Hassan and Bertrand Szelag 2. Heterogeneously integrated III-V photonic devices on Si Shinji Matsuo 3. Quantum dot lasers for silicon photonics Yasuhiko Arakawa, Takahiro Nakamura and Jinkwan Kwoen 4. Microchannel epitaxy of III-V layers on Si substrates Shigeya Naritsuka 5. Epitaxial lateral overgrowth of III-V semiconductors on Si for photonic integration Yan-Ting Sun and Sebastian Lourdudoss 6. Monolithic integration of lattice-matched Ga(NAsP)-based laser structures on CMOS-compatible Si (001) wafers for Si-photonics applications Kerstin Volz, Peter Ludewig and Wolfgang Stolz 7. Growth of III-V semiconductors and lasers on silicon substrates by MOCVD Bei Shi and Kei May Lau 8. Nano-ridge laser monolithically grown on (001) Si Dries Van Thourhout, Yuting Shi, Marina Baryshnikova, Yves Mols, Nadezda Kuznetsova, Yannick De Koninck, Marianna Pantouvaki, Joris Van Campenhout, Robert Langer and Bernardette Kunert 9. Quantum dot microcavity lasers on silicon substrates Yating Wan, Justin Norman and John Bowers