Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 5, Issue 1, 94(2012)

Design of unidirectional emission silicon/III-V laser for on-chip interconnects

Chucai GUO1,2, Yongzhen HUANG1、*, Yuede YANG1, Xiaomeng LV1, and Qifeng YAO1
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  • 1State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
  • 2College of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
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    We propose a unidirectional emission silicon/III-V laser, which comprises an III-V quantum wells microdisk connected to an output waveguide and a siliconon-insulator (SOI) waveguide. Characteristics of the III-V microdisk with an output waveguide and mode coupling between the III-V output waveguide and the SOI waveguide are investigated by three-dimensional (3D) finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. Simulation results show that the Q factor of a coupled mode for a 7.5 μm diameter microdisk connected to a 0.5 μm wide output waveguide is about 8.5104. And the coupling efficiency between the III-V output waveguide and the SOI waveguide is over 96% when the III-V waveguide width is 0.5 μm, the SOI waveguide width is 0.565 μm and the vertical gap between those two waveguides is 0.1 μm. The proposed hybrid laser would be of valuable applications for on-chip interconnects.

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    Chucai GUO, Yongzhen HUANG, Yuede YANG, Xiaomeng LV, Qifeng YAO. Design of unidirectional emission silicon/III-V laser for on-chip interconnects[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2012, 5(1): 94

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    Paper Information

    Received: Aug. 29, 2011

    Accepted: Sep. 14, 2011

    Published Online: Sep. 10, 2012

    The Author Email: HUANG Yongzhen (yzhuang@semi.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s12200-012-0190-0

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