Abstract
Silicon photonics is advancing rapidly with many scientific and engineering advances and many new applications for photonics. To highlight the topic, Light: Science & Applications invited John Bowers, director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency and distinguished professor from the University of California, Santa Barbara, to talk about the fundamentals and industries, and give a future perspective of silicon photonics. The below is summarized from the video interview of Prof. Bowers. The original interview can be accessed in Supplementary video.