DocumentCode
733790
Title
Efficient III-V/Si hybrid SOAs for optical interconnects
Author
Cheung, S. ; Shang, K. ; Kawakita, Y. ; Yoo, S. J. Ben
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
fYear
2015
fDate
10-15 May 2015
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
We present 1.55 μm hybrid III-V/Si SOA designs and experimentally determine wall-plug-efficiency (WPE) values for 2 mW and 0.1 mW input power amplification. Flared SOAs yield WPE = 12.1% for output power > 10 mW and straight SOAs achieve WPE = 7.2%.
Keywords
III-V semiconductors; elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; optical interconnections; semiconductor optical amplifiers; III-V/Si hybrid SOA; Si; WPE; input power amplification; optical interconnects; power 0.1 mW; power 2 mW; wall-plug-efficiency; wavelength 1.55 mum; Gain; Integrated circuit modeling; Loss measurement; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Silicon;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location
San Jose, CA
Type
conf
Filename
7184232
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