Recent advances in optical technologies for data centers: a review

Q Cheng, M Bahadori, M Glick, S Rumley, K Bergman - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Modern data centers increasingly rely on interconnects for delivering critical
communications connectivity among numerous servers, memory, and computation …

High-channel-count 20 GHz passively mode-locked quantum dot laser directly grown on Si with 4.1 Tbit/s transmission capacity

S Liu, X Wu, D Jung, JC Norman, MJ Kennedy… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Low-cost, small-footprint, highly efficient, and mass-producible on-chip wavelength-division-
multiplexing (WDM) light sources are key components in future silicon electronic and …

On-chip optical comb sources

A Hermans, K Van Gasse, B Kuyken - APL Photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
On-chip integration of optical comb sources is crucial in enabling their widespread use.
Integrated photonic devices that can be mass-manufactured in semiconductor processing …

Quantum dot lasers—History and future prospects

JC Norman, RP Mirin, JE Bowers - … of Vacuum Science & Technology A, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We describe the initial efforts to use molecular beam epitaxy to grow InAs quantum dots on
GaAs via the Stranski–Krastanov transition and then discuss the initial efforts to use these …

High-performance O-band quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifiers directly grown on a CMOS compatible silicon substrate

S Liu, J Norman, M Dumont, D Jung, A Torres… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
High gain and high saturation output power silicon-based semiconductor optical amplifiers
(SOAs) are essential elements in future large-scale silicon photonic integrated circuits (PICs) …

Phosphorus-free 1.5 µm InAs quantum-dot microdisk lasers on metamorphic InGaAs/SOI platform

WQ Wei, JY Zhang, JH Wang, H Cong, JJ Guo… - Optics letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
III–V semiconductor lasers epitaxially grown on silicon, especially on a silicon-on-insulator
(SOI) platform, have been considered one of the most promising approaches to realize an …

Passively mode-locked semiconductor quantum dot on silicon laser with 400 Hz RF line width

D Auth, S Liu, J Norman, J Edward Bowers… - Optics Express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Mode-locked InAs/InGaAs quantum dot lasers emitting optical frequency combs centered at
1310 nm are promising sources for high-speed and high-capacity communication …

Optical interconnection networks for high-performance systems

Q Cheng, M Glick, K Bergman - Optical fiber telecommunications VII, 2020 - Elsevier
Large-scale high-performance computing (HPC) systems in the form of supercomputers and
warehouse-scale data centers permeate nearly every corner of modern life from applications …

Latest advances in high-performance light sources and optical amplifiers on silicon

S Liu, A Khope - Journal of Semiconductors, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Efficient light generation and amplification has long been missing on the silicon platform due
to its well-known indirect bandgap nature. Driven by the size, weight, power and cost (SWaP …

1.3-µm passively mode-locked quantum dot lasers epitaxially grown on silicon: gain properties and optical feedback stabilization

B Dong, XC de Labriolle, S Liu, M Dumont… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
This work reports on an investigation of the optical feedback in an InAs/InGaAs passively
mode-locked quantum dot (QD) laser epitaxially grown on silicon. Under the stably-resonant …