A Ge-on-Si laser for electronic-photonic integration

We demonstrate room temperature photoluminescence and optical gain from the direct band gap transition of tensile strained n-type Ge-on-Si around 1600 nm, which can be applied to a Si-based laser for optical interconnects and communications.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sun, Xiaochen, Liu, Jifeng, Kimerling, Lionel C., Michel, Jurgen
Other Authors: MIT Materials Research Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61670
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3913-6189
Description
Summary:We demonstrate room temperature photoluminescence and optical gain from the direct band gap transition of tensile strained n-type Ge-on-Si around 1600 nm, which can be applied to a Si-based laser for optical interconnects and communications.