Integrated nanophotonics for information technologies and sensors: Ways to solve the present gridlock in performance

The decades long development in shrinking footprint and improving performance of photonics integrated circuits has seemingly slowed down in recent years, posing problems in e g interconnects in data centers with their ever increasing power requirements. Thus, routes to a continued development towards smaller footprint, lower power, higher performance integrated nanophotonics will be presented and discussed. Comparison to some nanoelectronics devices will be made.