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Wavelength Swept Photonic Crystal Laser, Sharon Marie Butler
Wavelength Swept Photonic Crystal Laser, Sharon Marie Butler
Theses
Photonics has become integral to society, based on its ability to sense the environment, to manipulate materials and to transport information. The dominance of silicon electronics has made silicon photonics a compelling vision, but difficulties with light emission have caused delays in implementation and an enduring role for III-V materials. The research conducted in this Ph.D. thesis involves study and utilisation of a combination of the optical gain of Indium Phosphide with the precision and energy of silicon nanophotonics in a novel family of lasers. A continuously tunable akinetic reflective filter is exploited to obtain a wavelength swept laser. The …
Hybrid Frequency Modulated Silicon Photonic Crystal Laser, Andrei Bakoz
Hybrid Frequency Modulated Silicon Photonic Crystal Laser, Andrei Bakoz
Theses
Silicon photonics takes advantage of the mature complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) infrastructure and processes, and is actively pursued for the implementation of complex optical components and photonic integrated circuits (PICs) at low cost and high volumes. Despite a constant refinement of silicon photonics technology to meet the evolving requirements for applications, the poor light emission ability of silicon remains a constraint. As a result, the most essential building block of an optical system, an efficient light emitter, remains absent in PICs based on silicon. This thesis is focused on study of the potential of an external cavity (EC) hybrid III-V …