Recent advances in light sources on silicon

Y Han, H Park, J Bowers, KM Lau - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2022 - opg.optica.org
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 …

Integrated lasers on silicon at communication wavelength: a progress review

N Li, G Chen, DKT Ng, LW Lim, J Xue… - Advanced Optical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Ultra-low-threshold continuous-wave and pulsed lasing in tensile-strained GeSn alloys

A Elbaz, D Buca, N von den Driesch, K Pantzas… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
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 …

Monolithic infrared silicon photonics: The rise of (Si) GeSn semiconductors

O Moutanabbir, S Assali, X Gong, E O'Reilly… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
(Si) GeSn semiconductors are finally coming of age after a long gestation period. The
demonstration of device-quality epi-layers and quantum-engineered heterostructures has …

Electrically injected GeSn lasers on Si operating up to 100 K

Y Zhou, Y Miao, S Ojo, H Tran, G Abernathy, JM Grant… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Monolithic lasers on Si have long been anticipated as an enabler of full photonic integration,
and significant progress in GeSn material development shows promise for such laser …

GeSn lasers covering a wide wavelength range thanks to uniaxial tensile strain

J Chrétien, N Pauc, F Armand Pilon, M Bertrand… - Acs …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Silicon photonics continues to progress tremendously, both in near-infrared
datacom/telecoms and in mid-IR optical sensing, despite the fact a monolithically integrated …

Room temperature lasing in GeSn microdisks enabled by strain engineering

D Buca, A Bjelajac, D Spirito… - Advanced Optical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The success of GeSn alloys as active material for infrared lasers could pave the way toward
a monolithic technology that can be manufactured within mainstream silicon photonics …

Review of Si-based GeSn CVD growth and optoelectronic applications

Y Miao, G Wang, Z Kong, B Xu, X Zhao, X Luo, H Lin… - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
GeSn alloys have already attracted extensive attention due to their excellent properties and
wide-ranging electronic and optoelectronic applications. Both theoretical and experimental …

Strain engineered electrically pumped SiGeSn microring lasers on Si

B Marzban, L Seidel, T Liu, K Wu, V Kiyek… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
SiGeSn holds great promise for enabling fully group-IV integrated photonics operating at
wavelengths extending in the mid-infrared range. Here, we demonstrate an electrically …

All‐Group IV Transferable Membrane Mid‐Infrared Photodetectors

MRM Atalla, S Assali, A Attiaoui… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Semiconductor membranes emerged as a versatile class of nanomaterials to control lattice
strain and engineer complex heterostructures enabling a variety of innovative applications …