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 …

Chip-scale frequency combs for data communications in computing systems

Y Okawachi, BY Kim, M Lipson, AL Gaeta - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Recent developments in chip-based frequency-comb technology demonstrate that comb
devices can be implemented in applications where photonic integration and power …

Monolithic integration of embedded III-V lasers on SOI

WQ Wei, A He, B Yang, ZH Wang, JZ Huang… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Silicon photonic integration has gained great success in many application fields owing to the
excellent optical device properties and complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) …

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 …

Linewidth narrowing in self-injection-locked on-chip lasers

E Alkhazraji, WW Chow, F Grillot, JE Bowers… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Stable laser emission with narrow linewidth is of critical importance in many applications,
including coherent communications, LIDAR, and remote sensing. In this work, the physics …

An energy-efficient and bandwidth-scalable DWDM heterogeneous silicon photonics integration platform

D Liang, S Srinivasan, G Kurczveil… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Heterogeneous III-V-on-silicon photonic integration has proved to be an attractive and
volume manufacturable solution that marries the merits of III-V compounds and silicon …

Ultra-high thermal stability InAs/GaAs quantum dot lasers grown on on-axis Si (001) with a record-high continuous-wave operating temperature of 150° C

Z Lv, S Wang, S Wang, H Chai, L Meng, X Yang… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Direct epitaxial growth of group III-V light sources with excellently thermal performance on
silicon photonics chips promises low-cost, low-power-consumption, high-performance …

Heterogeneous tunable III-V-on-silicon-nitride mode-locked laser emitting wide optical spectra

M Billet, S Cuyvers, S Poelman, A Hermans… - Photonics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a III-V-on-silicon-nitride mode-locked laser through the heterogeneous
integration of a semiconductor optical amplifier on a passive silicon-nitride cavity using the …

Atomic-Layer Engineered Erbium-Doped Waveguide Amplifier with a 14.4 dB Net Gain

H Zhang, Y He, S Zhu, X Zhou, L Zhang - ACS Photonics, 2024 - ACS Publications
Erbium-doped waveguide amplifiers have recently sparked significant interest due to their
importance in photonic integrated circuits and on-chip light sources. Erbium-doped thin films …