• DocumentCode
    1628751
  • Title

    Lateral carrier injection to germanium for monolithic light sources

  • Author

    Tani, Kazuki ; Saito, Shin-ichi ; Oda, Katsuya ; Okumura, Tadashi ; Mine, Toshiyuki ; Ido, Tatemi

  • Author_Institution
    Photonics Electron. Technol. Res. Assoc. (PETRA), Kokubunji, Japan
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    328
  • Lastpage
    330
  • Abstract
    We propose lateral carrier injections into a Ge waveguide on a silicon-on-insulator diode for monolithic light sources. We confirmed enhanced electroluminescence from the diode under high current densities of 1 MAcm-2.
  • Keywords
    current density; electroluminescence; elemental semiconductors; germanium; integrated optoelectronics; semiconductor lasers; silicon-on-insulator; waveguide lasers; Ge waveguide; Ge-Si; current densities; enhanced electroluminescence; lateral carrier injection; monolithic light sources; silicon-on-insulator diode; Electroluminescence; Light sources; Optical waveguides; Passivation; Photonic band gap; Semiconductor lasers; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2012 IEEE 9th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • ISSN
    1949-2081
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0826-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GROUP4.2012.6324176
  • Filename
    6324176