Widely tunable 2.3  μm III-V-on-silicon Vernier lasers for broadband spectroscopic sensing

Ruijun Wang; Stephan Sprengel; Anton Vasiliev; Gerhard Boehm; Joris Van Campenhout; Guy Lepage; Peter Verheyen; Roel Baets; Markus-Christian Amann; Gunther Roelkens

doi:10.1364/PRJ.6.000858

Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 9, 858(2018)

Widely tunable 2.3 μm III-V-on-silicon Vernier lasers for broadband spectroscopic sensing On the Cover

Ruijun Wang^1,2、*, Stephan Sprengel³, Anton Vasiliev^1,2, Gerhard Boehm³, Joris Van Campenhout⁴, Guy Lepage⁴, Peter Verheyen⁴, Roel Baets^1,2, Markus-Christian Amann³, and Gunther Roelkens^1,2

Author Affiliations

¹Photonics Research Group, Ghent University-IMEC, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 15, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium

²Center for Nano- and Biophotonics (NB-Photonics), Ghent University, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium

³Walter Schottky Institut, Technische Universität München, Am Coulombwall 4, 85748 Garching, Germany

⁴IMEC, Kapeldreef 75, Leuven B-3001, Belgium

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Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

Received: May. 23, 2018

Accepted: Jul. 2, 2018

Published Online: Aug. 15, 2018

The Author Email: Ruijun Wang (Ruijun.Wang@ugent.be)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000858

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