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 …

With the emerging trend of big data and internet of things, silicon (Si) photonics technology
has been developed and applied for high‐bandwidth data transmission. Contributed by the …

Strained GeSn alloys are promising for realizing light emitters based entirely on group IV
elements. Here, we report GeSn microdisk lasers encapsulated with a SiN x stressor layer to …

Silicon photonics continues to progress tremendously, both in near-infrared
datacom/telecoms and in mid-IR optical sensing, despite the fact a monolithically integrated …

Small semiconductor lasers that can be integrated on a chip are essential for a wide range
of optical applications, including optical computing, communication and sensing. Practical …

We experimentally demonstrate supercontinuum (SC) generation in a germanium-on-silicon
waveguide. This waveguide exhibits propagation loss between 1.2 dB/cm and 1.35 dB/cm in …

Integrated silicon nanophotonics has rapidly established itself as intriguing research field,
whose outlets impact numerous facets of daily life. Indeed, nanophotonics has propelled …

Semiconductor-based freestanding membranes (FSM) have recently emerged as a highly
promising area of advanced materials research. Their unique properties, such as lightweight …

Silicon (Si) photonics has recently emerged as a key enabling technology in many
application fields thanks to the mature Si process technology, the large silicon wafer size …

GeSn alloys are nowadays considered as the most promising materials to build Group IV
laser sources on silicon (Si) in a full complementary metal oxide semiconductor-compatible …