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 …

Monolithic integration of III-V semiconductor devices on Silicon (Si) has long been of great
interest in photonic integrated circuits (PICs), as well as traditional integrated circuits (ICs) …

Serving as the electrical to optical converter, the on-chip silicon light source is an
indispensable component of silicon photonic technologies and has long been pursued …

Si-based group III-V material enables a multitude of applications and functionalities of the
novel optoelectronic integration chips (OEICs) owing to their excellent optoelectronic …

The arrival of the big data era has driven the rapid development of high-speed optical
signaling and processing, ranging from long-haul optical communication links to short-reach …

The integration of optical interconnects with silicon-based electronics can address the
growing limitations facing chip-scale data transport as microprocessors become …

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

III–V semiconductors such as InP and GaAs are direct bandgap semiconductors with
significantly higher absorption compared to silicon. The high absorption allows for the …

The book gives an in-depth description of key devices of current and next generation fibre
optic communication networks. Devices treated include semiconductor lasers, optical …

This article reviews the major achievements in recent years on heteroepitaxy and selective
area heteroepitaxy that are relevant to silicon photonics. Material aspects are given due …