High power and widely tunable Si hybrid external-cavity laser for power efficient Si photonics WDM links

作者:Lee Jin Hyoung*; Shubin Ivan; Yao Jin; Bickford Justin; Luo Ying; Lin Shiyun; Djordjevic Stevan S; Thacker Hiren D; Cunningham John E; Raj Kannan; Zheng Xuezhe; Krishnamoorthy Ashok V
来源:Optics Express, 2014, 22(7): 7678-7685.
DOI:10.1364/OE.22.007678

摘要

A highly efficient silicon (Si) hybrid external cavity laser with a wavelength tunable ring reflector is fabricated on a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)-compatible Si-on-insulator (SOI) platform and experimental results with high output power are demonstrated. A III-V semiconductor gain chip is edge-coupled into a SOI cavity chip through a SiNx spot size converter and Si grating couplers are incorporated to enable wafer-scale characterization. The laser output power reaches 20 mW and the highest wall-plug efficiency of 7.8% is measured at 17.3 mW in un-cooled condition. The laser wavelength tuning ranges are 8 nm for the single ring reflector cavity and 35 nm for the vernier ring reflector cavity, respectively. The Si hybrid laser is a promising light source for energy-efficient Si CMOS photonic links.

  • 出版日期2014-4-7