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 …

III–V semiconductor whispering-gallery mode micro-cavity lasers: Advances and prospects

WW Wong, C Jagadish, HH Tan - IEEE Journal of Quantum …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
III-V semiconductor lasers are ubiquitous in modern optoelectronic devices, with
applications ranging from telecommunication to general lighting. Among the different kinds …

Bottom-up, chip-scale engineering of low threshold, multi-quantum-well microring lasers

WW Wong, N Wang, BD Esser, SA Church, L Li… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Integrated, on-chip lasers are vital building blocks in future optoelectronic and nanophotonic
circuitry. Specifically, III–V materials that are of technological relevance have attracted …

High-quality GaSb epitaxially grown on Si (001) through defects self-annihilation for CMOS-compatible near-IR light emitters

T Tang, W Zhan, C Shen, M Li, B Xu, Z Wang… - Optical Materials …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Direct epitaxial growth of III-V materials on complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor
(CMOS)-compatible Si substrates has long been a scientific and engineering problem for …

980 nm electrically pumped continuous lasing of QW lasers grown on silicon

Q Lin, J Huang, L Lin, W Luo, W Gu, KM Lau - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Investigation of high-performance lasers monolithically grown on silicon (Si) could promote
the development of silicon photonics in regimes other than the 1.3-1.5 µm band. 980 nm …

III–V infrared emitters on Si: fabrication concepts, device architectures and down-scaling with a focus on template-assisted selective epitaxy

P Tiwari, NV Trivino, H Schmid… - Semiconductor Science …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The local integration of III–Vs on Si is relevant for a wide range of applications in electronics
and photonics, since it combines a mature and established materials platform with desired …

Er3+-doped fluorotellurite glass microsphere lasers with ultra-low threshold

H Ding, Q Huang, S Bai, M Zhang, P Yang… - Infrared Physics & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Er 3+-doped tellurite glass microlasers have great potential in generating lasers in the
communication band. However, the lasing threshold is generally high due to the influence of …

GaAs on (001) Si templates for near-infrared InP quantum dot lasers

J Huang, Q Lin, W Luo, L Lin, KM Lau - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We investigated the effects of thermal cycle annealing (TCA) at high temperatures on the
defect density and morphology of GaAs epilayers grown on (001) Si substrates. Several …

High optical gain in InP-based quantum-dot material monolithically grown on silicon emitting at telecom wavelengths

R Balasubramanian, V Sichkovskyi… - Semiconductor …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe the fabrication process and properties of an InP based quantum dot (QD) laser
structure grown on a 5 off-cut silicon substrate. Several layers of QD-based dislocation filters …

Low-loss Er3+-doped silicate glass microsphere laser for temperature sensing

Y Yao, Q Zhang, Y Xie, Y Yang, Z Cao… - Advanced Sensor …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We present a low-loss Er 3+-doped silicate microsphere laser, exploring its temperature
sensing characteristics. We measure the threshold power of the Er 3+-doped silicate glass …