Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

High-performance lasers for fully integrated silicon nitride photonics

  • Chao Xiang,
  • Joel Guo,
  • Warren Jin,
  • Lue Wu,
  • Jonathan Peters,
  • Weiqiang Xie,
  • Lin Chang,
  • Boqiang Shen,
  • Heming Wang,
  • Qi-Fan Yang,
  • David Kinghorn,
  • Mario Paniccia,
  • Kerry J. Vahala,
  • Paul A. Morton,
  • John E. Bowers

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26804-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Achieving high output power and low noise integrated lasers is a major challenge. Here the authors experimentally demonstrate integrated lasers from a Si/SiN heterogeneous platform that shows Hertz-level linewidth, paving the way toward fully integrating low-noise silicon nitride photonics in volume using real devices for lasing.