Serving as the electrical to optical converter, the on-chip silicon light source is an
indispensable component of silicon photonic technologies and has long been pursued …

Rare-earth optical materials with large optical gain are of great importance for a wide variety
of applications in photonics and quantum information due to their long carrier lifetimes and …

Integrated photonics requires high gain optical materials in the telecom wavelength range
for optical amplifiers and coherent light sources. Erbium (Er) containing materials are ideal …

Single-crystal erbium silicate nanowires have attracted considerable attention because of
their high optical gain. In this work, we report the controlled synthesis of silicon-erbium …

Fabrication of 1D Photonic Crystal on a Single Erbium Chloride Silicate Nanowire and
Microcavity Laser Design Page 1 SW4I.2.pdf CLEO:2015 © OSA 2015 Fabrication of 1D Photonic …

Record-High Optical Gain in a Single Crystal Erbium Chloride Silicate Nanowire at 1532 nm
Page 1 SM4R.3.pdf CLEO:2016 © OSA 2016 Record-High Optical Gain in a Single Crystal …

This thesis is a contribution to the hybrid integration of active materials including Erbium-
doped and carbon nanotubes rich layers on silicon for on-chip light emission. In a first step …

A record level of spatial-averaged internal net gain larger than 300 dB/cm is demonstrated at
1532 nm from a single-crystal Erbium Chloride Silicate nanowire. Signal enhancement at …