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Project

Ultra-wide tuning range III-V-on-silicon tunable lasers for coherent transceivers
Code
01IT1922
Duration
19 August 2022 → 18 August 2023
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Photonics, optoelectronics and optical communications
Keywords
optical communication photonic integrated circuits heterogeneous integration
 
Project description
 

In this project we develop state-of-the-art tunable lasers by heterogeneous integration of III-V semiconductor optical amplifiers on silicon photonic integrated circuits by means of micro-transfer printing. These lasers find their application in the optical communication networks of the future, that need to operate over a much wider wavelength range in order to fully exploit the capacity of optical fibers.