This is a very active area of research. It's quite technical though so it takes a good amount of study to get into it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_

This is a very active area of research. It's quite technical though so it takes a good amount of study to get into it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_photonics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_photonics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_quantum_photonics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_quantum_photonics