This paper reviews optical injection locking (OIL) of semiconductor lasers and its application
in optical communications and signal processing. Despite complex OIL dynamics, we …

Increasing the modulation speed of semiconductor lasers has attracted much attention from
the viewpoint of both physics and the applications of lasers. Here we propose a membrane …

We review recent developments in directly modulated lasers (DMLs) with low operating
energy for datacom and computercom applications. Key issues are their operating energy …

Client-side optics are facing an ever-increasing upgrading pace, driven by upcoming 5G
related services and datacenter applications. The demand for a single lane data rate is soon …

In this paper, transmission performances of directly modulated laser (DML), electro-
absorption modulated laser (EML) and Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) are experimentally …

We demonstrate 100 GBd operation of an optical transmitter module including a distributed
feedback laser monolithically integrated with a Mach–Zehnder modulator (DFB-MZM), to the …

Integrating light emission and detection functionalities using efficient III-V materials on Si
wafers is highly desirable for Si-based photonic integrated circuits. To fulfill the need of high …

Common-signal-induced synchronization of semiconductor lasers have promising
applications in physical-layer secure transmission with high speed and compatibility with the …

The use of directly modulated lasers (DMLs) is attractive in low-power, cost-constrained
short-reach optical links. However, their limited modulation bandwidth can induce waveform …

Increasing demand for higher data rates in data centers and high-performance computing
systems require optical interconnects that support more than 100 Gbps-per-lane …