Microlasers and waveguides have wide applications in the fields of photonics and
optoelectronics. Lanthanide‐doped luminescent materials featuring large Stokes/anti …

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 …

Featured Application Silicon photonics. Abstract In recent years, silicon photonics has
achieved great success in optical communication area. More and more on-chip …

The thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT) in narrow conduction bands of different material
dimensionalities is investigated for different carrier scattering models. When the bandwidth …

An active metal strip hybrid plasmonic waveguide (MSHPW) using gain materials as loss
compensation is proposed with an extremely simple fabrication procedure. Gain materials …

Nanoscale near-infrared optical amplification is important but remains a challenge to
achieve. Here we report a unique design of silicon and erbium silicate core-shell nanowires …

Integrated Lasers on Silicon provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art use
of lasers on silicon for photonic integration. The authors demonstrate the need for efficient …

Active slot waveguides were fabricated by embedding low-index Er/Yb silicate material in
high-index silicon. A 1.7 dB signal enhancement at 1.53 µm in a 6 mm-long slot waveguide …

Silicon-based light sources, including light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and laser diodes (LDs)
for information transmission, are urgently needed for developing monolithic integrated …

Er_xY_2− xSiO_5 and Er_xYb_yY_2− x− ySiO_5 crystalline thin films were investigated to
apply to the high-gain media for silicon photonics. In addition to the sol–gel method, the …