Nanometre-scale semiconductor devices have been envisioned as next-generation
technologies with high integration and functionality. Quantum dots, or the so-called'artificial …

Owing to advances in fabrication technology and device design, semiconductor optical
amplifiers (SOAs) are evolving as a promising candidate for future optical coherent …

We describe the close connection between novel chemical synthesis and optimized light
emission by colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (qdots). We describe how new insights …

Direct epitaxial integration of III-V materials on Si offers substantial manufacturing cost and
scalability advantages over heterogeneous integration. The challenge is that epitaxial …

The ability to process optical signals without passing into the electrical domain has always
attracted the attention of the research community. Processing photons by photons unfolds …

CMOS platforms operating at the telecommunications wavelength either reside within the
highly dissipative two-photon regime in silicon-based optical devices, or possess small …

Ultra-wideband (UWB) wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) transmission using high-
order modulation formats is one of the key techniques to expand the transmission capacity …

This invaluable book provides a comprehensive treatment of design and applications of
semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA). SOA is an important component for optical …

Ten to 20 years from now, optical networks will have to carry vastly increased amounts of
Internet traffic. Today's knowledge (2006) already points to ultimate technology limits in the …

With the extraordinary growth in parallelism at all system scales driven by multicore
architectures, computing performance is increasingly determined by how efficiently high …