7 papers
An electrically-driven Carbon nanotube-based plasmonic laser on Silicon
Ke Liu, Behrouz Movahhed Nouri, Elham Heidari +2
Photonic signal processing requires efficient on-chip light sources with higher modulation bandwidths. Todays conventional fastest semiconductor diode lasers exhibit modulation spe…
On-chip Nanophotonic Broadband Wavelength Detector with 2D-Electron Gas
Vishal Kaushik, Swati Rajput, Sulabh Srivastav +8
Miniaturized, low-cost wavelength detectors are gaining enormous interest as we step into the new age of photonics. Incompatibility with integrated circuits or complex fabrication…
Integrated ultra-high-performance graphene optical modulator
Elham Heidari, Hamed Dalir, Farzad Mokhtari-Koushyar +5
With the increasing need for large volumes of data processing, transport, and storage, optimizing the trade-off between high-speed and energy consumption in today's optoelectronic…
Hexagonal Transverse Coupled Cavity VCSEL Redefining the High-Speed Lasers
Elham Heidari, Hamed Dalir, Moustafa Ahmed +2
The vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) have emerged as a vital approach for realizing energy efficient, high speed optical interconnects in the data center and superc…
Heterogeneously Integrated ITO Plasmonic Mach-Zehnder Interferometric Modulator on SOI
Rubab Amin, Rishi Maiti, Yaliang Gui +7
Densely integrated active photonics is key for next generation on-chip networks for addressing both footprint and energy budget concerns. However, the weak light-matter interaction…
Broadband Sub-λ GHz ITO Plasmonic Mach-Zehnder Modulator on Silicon Photonics
Rubab Amin, Rishi Maiti, Yaliang Gui +6
Here, we demonstrate a spectrally broadband, GHz-fast Mach-Zehnder interferometeric modulator, exhibiting a miniscule VpL of 95 V-um, deploying a sub-wavelength short electrostatic…