Integrated lasers on silicon at communication wavelength: a progress review

N Li, G Chen, DKT Ng, LW Lim, J Xue… - Advanced Optical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Rare-earth ion doped Al2O3 for active integrated photonics

WAPM Hendriks, L Chang, CI Van Emmerik… - … in Physics: X, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Aluminum oxide (Al2O3) is an emerging material in integrated photonics. It
exhibits a very broad transparency window from the UV to the mid-IR, very low propagation …

Electro-optically tunable microring laser monolithically integrated on lithium niobate on insulator

DF Yin, Y Zhou, Z Liu, Z Wang, H Zhang, Z Fang… - Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate monolithic integration of an electro-optically (EO) tunable microring laser
on lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) platform. The device is fabricated by photolithography …

Femtosecond pulse amplification on a chip

MA Gaafar, M Ludwig, K Wang, T Wildi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Femtosecond laser pulses enable the synthesis of light across the electromagnetic spectrum
and provide access to ultrafast phenomena in physics, biology, and chemistry. Chip …

Lasing in a hybrid rare‐earth silicon microdisk

K Miarabbas Kiani, HC Frankis… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon photonics is an ideal platform for low‐cost, energy‐efficient, and high‐performance
optical microsystems. However, because silicon is an inefficient light emitting material, the …

Monolithically integrated erbium-doped tunable laser on a CMOS-compatible silicon photonics platform

N Li, D Vermeulen, Z Su, ES Magden, M **n… - Optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
A tunable laser source is a crucial photonic component for many applications, such as
spectroscopic measurements, wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), frequency …

Erbium-doped TeO2-coated Si3N4 waveguide amplifiers with 5  dB net gain

HC Frankis, HM Mbonde, DB Bonneville… - Photonics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate 5 dB net gain in an erbium-doped tellurium-oxide-coated silicon nitride
waveguide. The amplifier design leverages the high refractive index and high gain in erbium …

Emerging and perspectives in microlasers based on rare-earth ions activated micro-/nanomaterials

Z Chen, G Dong, G Barillaro, J Qiu, Z Yang - Progress in Materials Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Microlasers have drawn considerable attention for applications in future optoelectronic
nanoscience and nanotechnology, owing to the capability of scaling physical dimension of …

A silicon photonic data link with a monolithic erbium-doped laser

N Li, M **n, Z Su, ES Magden, N Singh, J Notaros… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
To meet the increasing demand for data communication bandwidth and overcome the limits
of electrical interconnects, silicon photonic technology has been extensively studied, with …

High-power thulium lasers on a silicon photonics platform

N Li, P Purnawirman, Z Su, ES Magden, PT Callahan… - Optics letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Mid-infrared laser sources are of great interest for various applications, including light
detection and ranging, spectroscopy, communication, trace-gas detection, and medical …