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Directly modulated quantum dot lasers on silicon with a milliampere threshold and high temperature stability

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

Low-dark current 10 Gbit/s operation of InAs/InGaAs quantum dot p-i-n photodiode grown on on-axis (001) GaP/Si

We demonstrate 10 Gbit/s operation of InAs/InGaAs quantum dot (QD) p-i-n photodiodes (PDs) grown on on-axis (001) GaP/Si substrates. A 3.0 50 lm2 QD PD shows a small dark current of 0.2 nA at a bias voltage of 3 V, which corresponds to a dark current density of 0.13 mA/cm2 . This low-dark current characteristic obtained from a narrow-stripe device indicates that sidewall and threading dislocations have small effects on the dark current. The 3 dB bandwidth was 5.5 GHz at a bias voltage of 5 V. Large signal measurement with non-return-to-zero signals shows 10 Gbit/s