• DocumentCode
    839147
  • Title

    A Distributed Bragg Reflector Silicon Evanescent Laser

  • Author

    Fang, Alexander W. ; Koch, Brian R. ; Jones, Richard ; Lively, Erica ; Liang, Di ; Kuo, Ying-hao ; Bowers, John E.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA
  • Volume
    20
  • Issue
    20
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    1667
  • Lastpage
    1669
  • Abstract
    We report a distributed Bragg reflector silicon evanescent laser operating continuous wave at 1596 nm. The lasing threshold and maximum output power are 65 mA and 11 mW, respectively. The device generates open eye-diagrams under direct modulation at data rates up to 4 Gb/s.
  • Keywords
    distributed Bragg reflectors; integrated optics; semiconductor lasers; bit rate 4 Gbit/s; continuous wave laser; distributed Bragg reflector silicon evanescent laser; hybrid integration; open eye-diagram; power 11 mW; semiconductor lasers; silicon-on-insulator technology; wavelength 1596 nm; Hybrid integration; semiconductor lasers; silicon-on-insulator technology;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LPT.2008.2003382
  • Filename
    4602714