Recent progress in silicon‐based photonic integrated circuits and emerging applications

Z Xiao, W Liu, S Xu, J Zhou, Z Ren… - Advanced Optical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, with the further ministration of the semiconductor device in integrated
circuits, power consumption and data transmission bandwidth have become insurmountable …

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 …

Self-optimized single-nanowire photoluminescence thermometry

Z Liang, J Wu, Y Cui, H Sun, CZ Ning - Light: Science & Applications, 2023 - nature.com
Nanomaterials-based photoluminescence thermometry (PLT) is a new contact-free photonic
approach for temperature sensing, important for applications ranging from quantum …

Giant optical gain in a single-crystal erbium chloride silicate nanowire

H Sun, L Yin, Z Liu, Y Zheng, F Fan, S Zhao, X Feng… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
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 …

Internalization of Pegylated Er:Y2O3 Nanoparticles inside HCT-116 Cancer Cells: Implications for Imaging and Drug Delivery

RM Chiechio, A Caponnetto, R Battaglia… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Lanthanide-doped nanoparticles, featuring sharp emission peaks with narrow bandwidth,
exhibit high downconversion luminescence intensity, making them highly valuable in the …

Enhanced luminescence of erbium silicate: interstitial lithium directly regulates the lattice structure of erbium compound crystals

H Shang, D Yang, D Li - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We prepared high-intensity luminescent films with a high LDP (Er3+ luminescence lifetime-
concentration product) of 1.54× 1019 s× cm− 3, where lithium-doped erbium silicate grains …

Erbium silicate compound optical waveguide amplifier and laser

X Wang, P Zhou, Y He, Z Zhou - Optical Materials Express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
In the process of information technology, as Moore's law becomes more and more close to
the limit, the consensus to combine microelectronics and optoelectronics to develop silicon …

High-gain erbium silicate waveguide amplifier and a low-threshold, high-efficiency laser

P Zhou, S Wang, X Wang, Y He, Z Zhou, L Zhou… - Optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Erbium-doped materials have played an important role in the fabrication of light sources
used in silicon photonics. Recent studies demonstrated that erbium silicate nanowire had a …

Design of an on-chip electrically driven, position-adapted, fully integrated erbium-based waveguide amplifier for silicon photonics

P Zhou, B Wang, X Wang, B Wang, Y He… - OSA Continuum, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Erbium-doped waveguide amplifiers are important for silicon photonic large-scale
integration. They boost the optical signal to compensate for the on-chip loss of the whole …

Confinement effect and low-defect density-induced long lifetime Er silicate nanowire embedded in silicon oxide film

H Shen, Y Gao, D Yang, D Li - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
In this study, we have developed a reduced Er-Er interaction strategy for pursuing long
lifetime and high efficiency luminescence in Er compounds with higher Er concentration …