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Congratulations to Yating and team for selection as cover article and Editor's Choice on this article just published on low threshold, high speed quantum dot ring lasers.

Microring lasers feature ultralow thresholds and inherent wavelength-division multiplexing functionalities, offering an attractive approach to miniaturizing photonics in a compact area. Here, we present static and dynamic properties of microring quantum dot lasers grown directly on exact (001) GaP/Si. Effectively, a single-mode operation was observed at 1.3 μm with modes at spectrally distant locations. High temperature stability with T 0∼103 K has been achieved with a low threshold of 3 mA for microrings with an outer ring radius of 15 μm and a ring waveguide width of 4 μm.

Reducing dislocations in gallium arsenide on silicon templates

University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the USA has been working to optimize gallium arsenide (GaAs) molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) on gallium phosphide on silicon (GaP/Si) [Daehwan Jung et al, J. Appl. Phys., vol122, p225703, 2017]. Normally, growth of GaAs on Si uses off-axis substrates in efforts to avoid anti-phase domains. On-axis silicon is preferred for compatibility with CMOS processing foundries. The lattice mismatch between GaAs and Si is ~4%, leading to dislocations.