Electrically pumped continuous-wave III–V quantum dot lasers on silicon

Chen, Siming, Li, Wei, Wu, Jiang, Jiang, Qi, Tang, Mingchu, Shutts, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6751-7790, Elliott, Stella N., Sobiesierski, Angela, Seeds, Alwyn J., Ross, Ian, Smowton, Peter M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9105-4842 and Liu, Huiyun 2016. Electrically pumped continuous-wave III–V quantum dot lasers on silicon. Nature Photonics 10 , pp. 307-311. 10.1038/nphoton.2016.21

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Abstract

Reliable, efficient electrically pumped silicon-based lasers would enable full integration of photonic and electronic circuits, but have previously only been realized by wafer bonding. Here, we demonstrate continuous-wave InAs/GaAs quantum dot lasers directly grown on silicon substrates with a low threshold current density of 62.5 A cm–2, a room-temperature output power exceeding 105 mW and operation up to 120 °C. Over 3,100 h of continuous-wave operating data have been collected, giving an extrapolated mean time to failure of over 100,158 h. The realization of high-performance quantum dot lasers on silicon is due to the achievement of a low density of threading dislocations on the order of 105 cm−2 in the III–V epilayers by combining a nucleation layer and dislocation filter layers with in situ thermal annealing. These results are a major advance towards reliable and cost-effective silicon-based photonic–electronic integration.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics
Publisher:	Nature Publishing Group
ISSN:	1749-4885
Funders:	EPSRC
Date of Acceptance:	25 January 2016
Last Modified:	01 Nov 2022 09:33
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/88392

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