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 …

Electro-optic modulation in integrated photonics

G Sinatkas, T Christopoulos, O Tsilipakos… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Electro-optic modulators are an indispensable part of photonic communication systems,
largely dictating the achievable transmission rate. Recent advances in materials and …

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 …

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 …

Strong coupling in metal-semiconductor microcavities featuring Ge quantum wells: a perspective study

M Faverzani, S Calcaterra, P Biagioni, J Frigerio - Nanophotonics, 2024 - degruyter.com
In this work we theoretically investigate the possibility of observing strong coupling at mid-
infrared frequencies within the group-IV semiconductor material platform. Our results show …

Giant electro-optic effect in Ge/SiGe coupled quantum wells

J Frigerio, V Vakarin, P Chaisakul, M Ferretto… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Silicon-based photonics is now considered as the photonic platform for the next generation
of on-chip communications. However, the development of compact and low power …

Surface-normal Ge/SiGe asymmetric Fabry–Perot optical modulators fabricated on silicon substrates

RM Audet, EH Edwards, KC Balram… - Journal of lightwave …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate the first vertical-incidence Ge/SiGe quantum well reflection modulators
fabricated entirely on standard silicon substrates. These modulators could help enable …

Ge/SiGe parabolic quantum wells

A Ballabio, J Frigerio, S Firoozabadi… - Journal of Physics D …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum wells with parabolic confining potentials allow the realization of semiconductor
heterostructures mimicking the physical properties of a quantum harmonic oscillator. Here …

[HTML][HTML] Interfacial sharpness and intermixing in a Ge-SiGe multiple quantum well structure

A Bashir, K Gallacher, RW Millar, DJ Paul… - Journal of applied …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
A Ge-SiGe multiple quantum well structure created by low energy plasma enhanced
chemical vapour deposition, with nominal well thickness of 5.4 nm separated by 3.6 nm …

Asymmetric Ge/SiGe coupled quantum well modulators

Y Zhang, J Gao, S Qin, M Cheng, K Wang, L Kai… - …, 2021 - degruyter.com
We design and demonstrate an asymmetric Ge/SiGe coupled quantum well (CQW)
waveguide modulator for both intensity and phase modulation with a low bias voltage in …