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 …

Review of highly mismatched III-V heteroepitaxy growth on (001) silicon

Y Du, B Xu, G Wang, Y Miao, B Li, Z Kong, Y Dong… - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Si-based group III-V material enables a multitude of applications and functionalities of the
novel optoelectronic integration chips (OEICs) owing to their excellent optoelectronic …

Continuous-wave electrically pumped 1550?? nm lasers epitaxially grown on on-axis (001) silicon

B Shi, H Zhao, L Wang, B Song, ST Suran Brunelli… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Heteroepitaxy of III–V compound semiconductors on industry standard (001) silicon (Si)
substrates is highly desirable for large-scale electronic and photonic integrated circuits …

[HTML][HTML] MOCVD grown low dislocation density GaAs-on-V-groove patterned (001) Si for 1.3 μm quantum dot laser applications

B Shi, L Wang, AA Taylor, S Suran Brunelli… - Applied Physics …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We report the development of gallium arsenide (GaAs) films grown on V-groove patterned
(001) silicon (Si) by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition. This technique can provide an …

Continuous-wave optically pumped 1.55 μm InAs/InAlGaAs quantum dot microdisk lasers epitaxially grown on silicon

B Shi, S Zhu, Q Li, Y Wan, EL Hu, KM Lau - ACS Photonics, 2017 - ACS Publications
Monolithic integration of high-performance semiconductor lasers on silicon enables wafer-
scale optical interconnects within photonic integrated circuits on a silicon manufacturing …

Room-temperature electrically-pumped 1.5 μm InGaAs/InAlGaAs laser monolithically grown on on-axis (001) Si

S Zhu, B Shi, Q Li, KM Lau - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Hetero-epitaxial growth of high quality InP on a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor
(CMOS)-compatible Si platform is compelling for monolithic integration of optoelectronics. It …

High-power, electrically-driven continuous-wave 1.55-μm Si-based multi-quantum well lasers with a wide operating temperature range grown on wafer-scale InP-on …

J Sun, J Lin, M Zhou, J Zhang, H Liu, T You… - Light: Science & …, 2024 - nature.com
A reliable, efficient and electrically-pumped Si-based laser is considered as the main
challenge to achieve the integration of all key building blocks with silicon photonics. Despite …

Self-organized InAs/InAlGaAs quantum dots as dislocation filters for InP films on (001) Si

B Shi, Q Li, KM Lau - Journal of Crystal Growth, 2017 - Elsevier
We report the effects of multi-layer InAs/InAlGaAs quantum dots (QDs) inserted as
dislocation filters into an InP thin film epitaxially grown on (001) Si substrates by …

Epitaxial growth of high quality InP on Si substrates: The role of InAs/InP quantum dots as effective dislocation filters

B Shi, Q Li, KM Lau - Journal of Applied Physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Monolithic integration of InP on a Si platform ideally facilitates on-chip light sources in silicon
photonic applications. In addition to the well-developed hybrid bonding techniques, the …

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 …