Prospects and applications of on-chip lasers

Z Zhou, X Ou, Y Fang, E Alkhazraji, R Xu, Y Wan… - Elight, 2023 - Springer
Integrated silicon photonics has sparked a significant ramp-up of investment in both
academia and industry as a scalable, power-efficient, and eco-friendly solution. At the heart …

Recent progress in lasers on silicon

D Liang, JE Bowers - Nature photonics, 2010 - nature.com
Silicon lasers have long been a goal for semiconductor scientists, and a number of important
breakthroughs in the past decade have focused attention on silicon as a photonic platform …

[HTML][HTML] Tutorial on narrow linewidth tunable semiconductor lasers using Si/III-V heterogeneous integration

MA Tran, D Huang, JE Bowers - APL photonics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Narrow linewidth lasers have many applications, such as higher order coherent
communications, optical sensing, and metrology. While semiconductor lasers are typically …

On-chip light sources for silicon photonics

Z Zhou, B Yin, J Michel - Light: Science & Applications, 2015 - nature.com
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 …

The emergence of silicon photonics as a flexible technology platform

X Chen, MM Milosevic, S Stanković… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a brief history of silicon photonics from the early research papers in
the late 1980s and early 1990s, to the potentially revolutionary technology that exists today …

Recent advances in light sources on silicon

Y Han, H Park, J Bowers, KM Lau - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Realizing efficient on-chip light sources has long been the “holy-grail” for Si-photonics
research. Several important breakthroughs were made in this field in the past few years. In …

High-power sub-kHz linewidth lasers fully integrated on silicon

D Huang, MA Tran, J Guo, J Peters, T Komljenovic… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a fully integrated extended distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) laser with∼ 1
kHz linewidth and over 37 mW output power, as well as a ring-assisted DBR laser with less …

III‐V/silicon photonics for on‐chip and intra‐chip optical interconnects

G Roelkens, L Liu, D Liang, R Jones… - Laser & Photonics …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper III‐V on silicon‐on‐insulator (SOI) heterogeneous integration is reviewed for
the realization of near infrared light sources on a silicon waveguide platform, suitable for …

Integration of III-V lasers on Si for Si photonics

M Tang, JS Park, Z Wang, S Chen, P Jurczak… - Progress in Quantum …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Development of Si photonic integrated circuits (PICs) has been impeded due to lack
of efficient Si-based light-emitting sources. Because of their indirect bandgap, bulk Ge and …

Hybrid integrated platforms for silicon photonics

D Liang, G Roelkens, R Baets, JE Bowers - Materials, 2010 - mdpi.com
A review of recent progress in hybrid integrated platforms for silicon photonics is presented.
Integration of III-V semiconductors onto silicon-on-insulator substrates based on two different …