Recent progress on Ge/SiGe quantum well optical modulators, detectors, and emitters for optical interconnects

P Chaisakul, V Vakarin, J Frigerio, D Chrastina, G Isella… - Photonics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Germanium/Silicon-Germanium (Ge/SiGe) multiple quantum wells receive great attention for
the realization of Si-based optical modulators, photodetectors, and light emitters for short …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in GeSi electro-absorption modulators

P Chaisakul, D Marris-Morini, MS Rouifed… - … and technology of …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Electro-absorption from GeSi heterostructures is receiving growing attention as a high
performance optical modulator for short distance optical interconnects. Ge incorporation with …

Near-and far-infrared absorption and electronic structure of Ge-SiGe multiple quantum wells

Y Busby, M De Seta, G Capellini, F Evangelisti… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
We report an extensive study of strained Ge/Si 0.2 Ge 0.8 multiquantum wells grown by
ultrahigh-vacuum chemical-vapor deposition. The microstructural properties of the samples …

Tight-binding calculation of optical gain in tensile strained [001]-Ge/SiGe quantum wells

G Pizzi, M Virgilio, G Grosso - Nanotechnology, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
It is known that under a tensile strain of about 2% of the lattice constant, the energy of the
bottom conduction state of bulk Ge at the Γ point falls below the minimum at the L point …

Simple electroabsorption calculator for designing 1310 nm and 1550 nm modulators using germanium quantum wells

RK Schaevitz, EH Edwards, JE Roth… - IEEE Journal of …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With germanium showing significant promise in the design of electroabsorption modulators
for full complementary metal oxide semiconductor integration, we present a simple …

Quantum-confined Stark effect at 1.3 μm in quantum-well structure

MS Rouifed, P Chaisakul, D Marris-Morini, J Frigerio… - Optics letters, 2012 - opg.optica.org
Room-temperature quantum-confined Stark effect in a Ge/SiGe quantum-well structure is
reported at the wavelength of 1.3 μm. The operating wavelength is tuned by the use of strain …

Design of Ge–SiGe quantum-confined Stark effect electroabsorption heterostructures for CMOS compatible photonics

L Lever, Z Ikonić, A Valavanis… - Journal of lightwave …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We describe a combined 6× 6 k· p and one-band effective mass modelling tool to calculate
absorption spectra in Ge-SiGe multiple quantum well (MQW) heterostructures. We find good …

Polarization-dependent absorption in Ge/SiGe multiple quantum wells: Theory and experiment

M Virgilio, M Bonfanti, D Chrastina, A Neels… - Physical Review B …, 2009 - APS
Polarization resolved absorption spectra of a strain-compensated Ge multiple quantum well
(MQW) structure with Ge-rich SiGe barriers have been calculated with an sp 3 d 5 s∗ tight …

Polarization dependence of quantum-confined Stark effect in Ge/SiGe quantum well planar waveguides

P Chaisakul, D Marris-Morini, G Isella, D Chrastina… - Optics letters, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We report room-temperature quantum-confined Stark effect in Ge/SiGe multiple quantum
wells (MQWs) with light propagating parallel to the plane of the Ge/SiGe MQWs for …

Optical manipulation of the Rashba effect in germanium quantum wells

S Rossi, E Talamas Simola… - Advanced Optical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Rashba effect in Ge/Si0. 15Ge0. 85 multiple quantum wells embedded in ap‐i‐
n diode is studied through polarization and time‐resolved photoluminescence. In addition to …