Optics offers unique opportunities for reducing energy in information processing and
communications while simultaneously resolving the problem of interconnect bandwidth …

With the rapid development of on-chip optical interconnects and optical computing in the
past decade, silicon-based integrated devices for monolithic and hybrid optoelectronic …

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 …

We analyze energy consumption in optical modulators operated in depletion and intended
for low-power interconnect applications. We include dynamic dissipation from charging …

Silicon photonics is the most promising pathway to achieve> 10 Tb/s off-chip I/O bandwidth
required by next-generation high-performance computing and switching systems. Ring …

Lately, germanium based materials attract a lot of interest as they can overcome some limits
inherent to standard Silicon Photonics devices and can be used notably in Mid-Infra-Red …

We report a Ge/SiGe quantum well waveguide electroabsorption modulator that is
monolithically integrated with silicon-on-insulator waveguides. The active quantum well …

Germanium (Ge) is a group-IV indirect band gap semiconductor, and therefore bulk Ge
cannot emit light efficiently. However, the direct band gap energy is close to the indirect one …

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 …

Electro-absorption from GeSi heterostructures is receiving growing attention as a high
performance optical modulator for short distance optical interconnects. Ge incorporation with …