The arrival of the big data era has driven the rapid development of high-speed optical
signaling and processing, ranging from long-haul optical communication links to short-reach …

In recent years, with the further ministration of the semiconductor device in integrated
circuits, power consumption and data transmission bandwidth have become insurmountable …

Serving as the electrical to optical converter, the on-chip silicon light source is an
indispensable component of silicon photonic technologies and has long been pursued …

Rare-earth optical materials with large optical gain are of great importance for a wide variety
of applications in photonics and quantum information due to their long carrier lifetimes and …

In this Letter, we investigate and compare the gain and noise figure characteristics of
bismuth (Bi)-doped fiber amplifiers configured in both single and double signal pass …

We review current silicon photonic devices and their performance in connection with energy
consumption. Four critical issues are identified to lower energy consumption in devices and …

Nanoscale near-infrared optical amplification is important but remains a challenge to
achieve. Here we report a unique design of silicon and erbium silicate core-shell nanowires …

Integrated Lasers on Silicon provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art use
of lasers on silicon for photonic integration. The authors demonstrate the need for efficient …

Single-phase, polycrystalline Er_xY_2-xSiO_5 thin films were deposited by reactive ion-
beam sputter deposition and rapid thermal annealing. Due to the crystalline nature, the …

We report on the control of the formation and the luminescent properties of polymorphic
forms of erbium (Er) silicates by the modification of annealing temperatures, annealing …