High-Temperature Operation of Photonic-Crystal Lasers for On-Chip Optical Interconnection

Koji TAKEDA  Tomonari SATO  Takaaki KAKITSUKA  Akihiko SHINYA  Kengo NOZAKI  Chin-Hui CHEN  Hideaki TANIYAMA  Masaya NOTOMI  Shinji MATSUO 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics  Vol.E95-C  No.7  pp.1244-1251
Publication Date: 2012/07/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1353
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Recent Progress in Active Photonic Device Technologies)
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Keyword: 
photonic-crystal lasers,  buried heterostructures,  optical interconnections, 

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Summary: 
To meet the demand for light sources for on-chip optical interconnections, we demonstrate the continuous-wave (CW) operation of photonic-crystal (PhC) nanocavity lasers at up to 89.8 by using InP buried heterostructures (BH). The wavelength of a PhC laser can be precisely designed over a wide range exceeding 100 nm by controlling the lattice constant of the PhC. The dynamic responses of the PhC laser are also demonstrated with a 3-dB bandwidth of over 7.0 GHz at 66.2. These results reveal the laser's availability for application to wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) optical interconnection on CMOS chips. We discuss the total bandwidths of future on-chip optical interconnections, and report the capabilities of PhC lasers.