Integrated silicon photonics has sparked a significant ramp-up of investment in both
academia and industry as a scalable, power-efficient, and eco-friendly solution. At the heart …

Realizing efficient on-chip light sources has long been the “holy-grail” for Si-photonics
research. Several important breakthroughs were made in this field in the past few years. In …

Silicon photonic integration has gained great success in many application fields owing to the
excellent optical device properties and complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) …

Epitaxially grown quantum dot (QD) lasers are emerging as an economical approach to
obtain on-chip light sources. Thanks to the three-dimensional confinement of carriers, QDs …

With the emerging trend of big data and internet of things, silicon (Si) photonics technology
has been developed and applied for high‐bandwidth data transmission. Contributed by the …

Semiconductor III–V photonic crystal (PC) laser is regarded as a promising ultra-compact
light source with unique advantages of ultralow energy consumption and small footprint for …

Excitons—bound electron-hole pairs—play a central role in light-matter interaction
phenomena and are crucial for wide-ranging applications from light harvesting and …

Tunable semiconductor lasers have many important applications such as wavelength
division multiplexing, light detection and ranging, and gas detection. The increased interest …

Distributed feedback (DFB) lasers represent a central focus for wavelength‐division‐
multiplexing‐based transceivers in metropolitan networks. Here, the first 1.3 µm quantum dot …

Seamlessly integrating III-V active devices with Si passive components in a monolithic
manner is the key for fully integrated Si photonics. In this article, we demonstrate high …