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 …

Silicon (Si) photonics is a disruptive technology on the fast track to revolutionise integrated
photonics. An indispensable branch thereof, heterogeneous Si integration, has also evolved …

Silicon photonic integration has gained great success in many application fields owing to the
excellent optical device properties and complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) …

Direct epitaxial growth of III-V light sources on Si photonic chips is promising to realize low-
cost and high-functionality photonic integrated circuits. Historically, high temperature …

Monolithic integration of quantum dot (QD) gain materials onto Si photonic platforms via
direct epitaxial growth is a promising solution for on-chip light sources. Recent …

Silicon does not emit light efficiently, therefore the integration of other light‐emitting
materials is highly demanded for silicon photonic integrated circuits. A number of integration …

As a promising integration platform, silicon photonics need on-chip laser sources that
dramatically improve capability, while trimming size and power dissipation in a cost-effective …

On-chip integration of quantum optical systems could be a major factor enabling photonic
quantum technologies. Unlike the case of electronics, where the essential device is the …

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 …

We demonstrate the first electrically pumped continuous-wave (CW) III–V semiconductor
lasers epitaxially grown on on-axis (001) silicon substrates without offcut or germanium …