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 …

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 …

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

In recent years, optical modulators, photodetectors,(de) multiplexers, and heterogeneously
integrated lasers based on silicon optical platforms have been verified. The performance of …

Epitaxially grown quantum dot (QD) lasers are emerging as an economical approach to
obtain on-chip light sources. Thanks to the three-dimensional confinement of carriers, QDs …

Significant improvements in III–V/Si epitaxy have pushed quantum dots (QDs) to the forefront
of Si photonics. For efficient, scalable, and multifunctional integrated systems to be …

With continuously growing global data traffic, silicon (Si)-based photonic integrated circuits
have emerged as a promising solution for high-performance Intra-/Inter-chip optical …

Heterogeneous integration of indium phosphide (InP) onto the Si platform via plasma-
activated bonding enables efficient evanescent coupling with lower dislocation density …

Microwave photonic receivers are a promising candidate in breaking the bandwidth
limitation of traditional radio-frequency (RF) receivers. To further balance the performance …

We describe the initial efforts to use molecular beam epitaxy to grow InAs quantum dots on
GaAs via the Stranski–Krastanov transition and then discuss the initial efforts to use these …