Review of silicon photonics: history and recent advances

WN Ye, Y Xiong - Journal of Modern Optics, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Silicon photonics has attracted tremendous attention and research effort as a promising
technology in optoelectronic integration for computing, communications, sensing, and solar …

Nanocrystals for silicon-based light-emitting and memory devices

SK Ray, S Maikap, W Banerjee… - Journal of Physics D …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Nanocrystals (NCs), representing a zero-dimensional system, are an ideal platform for
exploring quantum phenomena on the nanoscale, and are expected to play a major role in …

Analysis of enhanced light emission from highly strained germanium microbridges

MJ Süess, R Geiger, RA Minamisawa, G Schiefler… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Tensile strain is a widely discussed means for inducing a direct bandgap in Ge for the
realization of a semiconductor laser compatible with Si microelectronics. We present a top …

Heterogeneous lithium niobate photonics on silicon substrates

P Rabiei, J Ma, S Khan, J Chiles, S Fathpour - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
A platform for the realization of tightly-confined lithium niobate photonic devices and circuits
on silicon substrates is reported based on wafer bonding and selective oxidation of …

Lasing from individual GaAs-AlGaAs core-shell nanowires up to room temperature

B Mayer, D Rudolph, J Schnell, S Morkötter… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Semiconductor nanowires are widely considered to be the next frontier in the drive towards
ultra-small, highly efficient coherent light sources. While NW lasers in the visible and …

Demonstration of a heterogeneously integrated III-V/SOI single wavelength tunable laser

S Keyvaninia, G Roelkens, D Van Thourhout, C Jany… - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
A heterogeneously integrated III-V-on-silicon laser is reported, integrating a III-V gain
section, a silicon ring resonator for wavelength selection and two silicon Bragg grating …

Silicon photonics: the next fabless semiconductor industry

M Hochberg, NC Harris, R Ding… - IEEE Solid-State …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Something very surprising has been happening in photonics recently: the same foundries
and processes that were developed to build transistors are being repurposed to build chips …

Widely tunable Vernier ring laser on hybrid silicon

JC Hulme, JK Doylend, JE Bowers - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
A hybrid silicon tunable Vernier ring laser is designed and fabricated by integration of two
intra-cavity ring resonators, hybrid III-V-on-silicon gain elements, and resistive heaters for …

Heterogeneously integrated III-V/silicon distributed feedback lasers

S Keyvaninia, S Verstuyft, L Van Landschoot… - Optics letters, 2013 - opg.optica.org
Heterogeneously integrated III-V-on-silicon second-order distributed feedback lasers
utilizing an ultra-thin DVS-BCB die-to-wafer bonding process are reported. A novel DFB …

A scalable silicon photonic chip-scale optical switch for high performance computing systems

R Yu, S Cheung, Y Li, K Okamoto, R Proietti, Y Yin… - Optics …, 2013 - opg.optica.org
This paper discusses the architecture and provides performance studies of a silicon
photonic chip-scale optical switch for scalable interconnect network in high performance …