Vertical-coupled high-efficiency tunable III-V- CMOS SOI hybrid external-cavity laser

Opt Express. 2013 Dec 30;21(26):32425-31. doi: 10.1364/OE.21.032425.

Abstract

We demonstrate a hybrid III-V/SOI laser by vertically coupling a III-V RSOA chip with a SOI-CMOS chip containing a tunable wavelength selective reflector. We report a waveguide-coupled wall-plug-efficiency of 5.5% and output power of 10 mW. A silicon resistor-based microheater was integrated to thermally tune a ring resonator for precise lasing wavelength control. A high tuning efficiency of 2.2 nm/mW over a range of 18 nm was achieved by locally removing the SOI handler substrate. C-band single mode lasing was confirmed with a side mode suppression ratio of 35 dB. This grating coupler based vertical integration approach can be scaled up in two dimensions for efficient multi-wavelength sources in silicon photonics.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.