Exploration of the Stranski-Krastanow growth of strained semiconductor heterostructures
marked the major breakthrough for easy fabrication of defect-free quantum dots (QDs). For …

The advances in lasers, electronic and photonic integrated circuits (EPIC), optical
interconnects as well as the modulation techniques allow the present day society to …

Integrated optical circuits based on silicon-on-insulator technology are likely to become the
mainstay of the photonics industry. Over recent years an impressive range of silicon-on …

The trend of data center transceivers is to increase bandwidth while simultaneously
decreasing their size, power consumption, and cost. While data center links have previously …

Geometry, nonlinearity, dispersion and two-photon absorption figure of merit of three basic
silicon-organic hybrid waveguide designs are compared. Four-wave mixing and heterodyne …

The nonlinear response of amorphous silicon waveguides is reported and compared to
silicon-on-insulator (SOI) samples. The real part of the nonlinear coefficient γ is measured by …

An ultra-compact design of all-optical fundamental logic gates like AND, OR in addition with
universal logic gates like NAND and NOR using two cascaded symmetrical optical microring …

This paper presents the parameter design and performance analysis of a 160Gb/s all-optical
XOR gate based on cross-gain modulation (XGM) in a nonlinear Mach–Zehnder …

A polarization-insensitive quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers (QD-SOAs) have
been studied for use in future optical communication systems. A part of our work shows that …

This thesis sheds light on the unique dynamics of optoelectronic devices based on
semiconductor quantum-dots. The complex scattering processes involved in filling the …