Germanium-based integrated photonics from near-to mid-infrared applications

D Marris-Morini, V Vakarin, JM Ramirez, Q Liu… - …, 2018‏ - degruyter.com
Germanium (Ge) has played a key role in silicon photonics as an enabling material for
datacom applications. Indeed, the unique properties of Ge have been leveraged to develop …

Recent progress in silicon photonics: a review

Z Fang, CZ Zhao - International Scholarly Research Notices, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
With the increasing bandwidth requirement in computing and signal processing, the inherent
limitations in metallic interconnection are seriously threatening the future of traditional IC …

Integrated germanium optical interconnects on silicon substrates

P Chaisakul, D Marris-Morini, J Frigerio, D Chrastina… - Nature …, 2014‏ - nature.com
Monolithic integration of optoelectronics with electronics is a much-desired functionality.
Here, we demonstrate that it is possible to realize low-loss Ge quantum-well photonic …

23 GHz Ge/SiGe multiple quantum well electro-absorption modulator

P Chaisakul, D Marris-Morini, MS Rouifed, G Isella… - Optics …, 2012‏ - opg.optica.org
We report on high speed operation of a Ge/SiGe multiple quantum well (MQW) electro-
absorption modulator in a waveguide configuration. 23 GHz bandwidth is experimentally …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress on Ge/SiGe quantum well optical modulators, detectors, and emitters for optical interconnects

P Chaisakul, V Vakarin, J Frigerio, D Chrastina, G Isella… - Photonics, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
Germanium/Silicon-Germanium (Ge/SiGe) multiple quantum wells receive great attention for
the realization of Si-based optical modulators, photodetectors, and light emitters for short …

Advances toward Ge/SiGe quantum-well waveguide modulators at 1.3 μm

MS Rouifed, D Marris-Morini… - IEEE Journal of …, 2013‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The paper reports on the developments of Ge/SiGe quantum well (QW) waveguide
modulators operating at 1.3 μm. Two modulator configurations have been studied: The first …

[کتاب][B] Silicon, germanium, and their alloys: growth, defects, impurities, and nanocrystals

G Kissinger, S Pizzini - 2014‏ - books.google.com
Despite the vast knowledge accumulated on silicon, germanium, and their alloys, these
materials still demand research, eminently in view of the improvement of knowledge on …

Low-voltage broad-band electroabsorption from thin Ge/SiGe quantum wells epitaxially grown on silicon

EH Edwards, L Lever, ET Fei, TI Kamins, Z Ikonic… - Optics express, 2013‏ - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate electroabsorption contrast greater than 5 dB over the entire
telecommunication S-and C-bands with only 1V drive using a new Ge/SiGe QW epitaxy …

Modulation of the absorption coefficient at in Ge/SiGe multiple quantum well heterostructures on silicon

L Lever, Y Hu, M Myronov, X Liu, N Owens… - Optics letters, 2011‏ - opg.optica.org
We report modulation of the absorption coefficient at 1.3? μm in Ge/SiGe multiple quantum
well heterostructures on silicon via the quantum-confined Stark effect. Strain engineering …

Room temperature photoluminescence of Ge multiple quantum wells with Ge-rich barriers

E Gatti, E Grilli, M Guzzi, D Chrastina, G Isella… - Applied physics …, 2011‏ - pubs.aip.org
We report on the observation of room temperature direct band gap photoluminescence in
compressively strained-Ge multiple quantum wells with Ge-rich SiGe barriers. A detailed …