Waveguide engineering for hybrid Si/III-V lasers and amplifiers
June 6, 2012
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CLEO: Conf. on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 6-11 June 2012.
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Summary
Using adiabatic tapers, hybrid silicon / III-V lasers and amplifiers are integrated with conventional thin (t = 0.25 um) silicon waveguides. Amplifiers have ~12 dB intrachip gain, and similar lasers have thresholds of 35 mA.