In this paper, the 200mm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform is used to demonstrate the monolithic co-integration of hybrid III-V/silicon distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) tunable lasers and silicon Mach-Zehnder modulators (MZMs), to achieve fully integrated hybrid transmitters for silicon photonics. The design of each active component, as well as the fabrication process steps of the whole architecture are described in detail. A data transmission rate up to 25Gb/s has been reached for transmitters using MZMs with active lengths of 2mm and 4mm.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report on the design, fabrication and performance of the first hetero-integrated III-V on silicon sampled-grating distributed Bragg reflector lasers (SGDBR) operating in the O-band and based on direct bonding and adiabatic coupling. Two devices with different geometric parameters are presented both showing an output power in the Si waveguide as high as 7.5 mW and a continuous tuning range of 27 and 35 nm respectively with a side mode suppression ration higher than 35 dB.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report on the design, fabrication and performance of a hetero-integrated III-V on silicon distributed feedback lasers (DFB) at 1310 nm based on direct bonding and adiabatic coupling. The continuous wave (CW) regime is achieved up to 55 °C as well as mode-hop-free operation with side-mode suppression ratio (SMSR) above 55 dB. At room temperature, the current threshold is 36 mA and the maximum coupled power in the silicon waveguide is 22 mW.
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