Prospects and applications of on-chip lasers

Z Zhou, X Ou, Y Fang, E Alkhazraji, R Xu, Y Wan… - Elight, 2023 - Springer
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 …

A review of high-performance quantum dot lasers on silicon

JC Norman, D Jung, Z Zhang, Y Wan… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Laser gain regions using quantum dots have numerous improvements over quantum wells
for photonic integration. Their atom-like density of states gives them unique gain properties …

Silicon photonics for high-capacity data communications

Y Shi, Y Zhang, Y Wan, Y Yu, Y Zhang, X Hu… - Photonics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
In recent years, optical modulators, photodetectors,(de) multiplexers, and heterogeneously
integrated lasers based on silicon optical platforms have been verified. The performance of …

Perspectives on advances in quantum dot lasers and integration with Si photonic integrated circuits

C Shang, Y Wan, J Selvidge, E Hughes, R Herrick… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
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 …

Mid-infrared hyperchaos of interband cascade lasers

Y Deng, ZF Fan, BB Zhao, XG Wang, S Zhao… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Chaos in nonlinear dynamical systems is featured with irregular appearance and with high
sensitivity to initial conditions. Near-infrared light chaos based on semiconductor lasers has …

Uncovering recent progress in nanostructured light-emitters for information and communication technologies

F Grillot, J Duan, B Dong, H Huang - Light: Science & Applications, 2021 - nature.com
Semiconductor nanostructures with low dimensionality like quantum dots and quantum
dashes are one of the best attractive and heuristic solutions for achieving high performance …

1.3 µm quantum dot‐distributed feedback lasers directly grown on (001) Si

Y Wan, JC Norman, Y Tong… - Laser & Photonics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Recent progress of quantum dot lasers monolithically integrated on Si platform

V Cao, JS Park, M Tang, T Zhou, A Seeds… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
With continuously growing global data traffic, silicon (Si)-based photonic integrated circuits
have emerged as a promising solution for high-performance Intra-/Inter-chip optical …

Wafer-level InP-Si covalent bonding and defect-free heterointerface for photonic quantum systems

Q Kang, F Niu, G Li, K Liu, T Suga, C Wang - Applied Surface Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Heterogeneous integration of indium phosphide (InP) onto the Si platform via plasma-
activated bonding enables efficient evanescent coupling with lower dislocation density …

Tunable quantum dot lasers grown directly on silicon

Y Wan, S Zhang, JC Norman, MJ Kennedy, W He, S Liu… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Tunable semiconductor lasers are often listed in critical technology road maps for future
dense-wavelength-division-multiplexing (DWDM) systems and high-performance computing …