Optical Fiber Telecommunications Volume VIA, 6th Edition

Chapter 13

Hybrid Silicon Lasers

Brian R. Koch^a, Sudharsanan Srinivasan^b and John E. Bowers^b,    ^aAurrion, Inc., Goleta, CA, 93117 USA, ^bUniversity of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106 USA

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the many researchers at UCSB, Aurrion, Intel, and HP with whom we have worked and who have significantly contributed to hybrid silicon laser technology.

13.1 Introduction to Hybrid Silicon Lasers

Silicon photonics has long been viewed by many researchers as a way of making inexpensive photonic components by leveraging the mature infrastructure of CMOS fabrication [1–13]. The envisioned levels of integration range from simply making high-quality ...