We report the design and characterization of external-cavity DBR lasers built with a III-V-semiconductor reflective-SOA with spot-size converter edge-coupled to SOI waveguides containing Bragg grating mirrors. The un-cooled lasers have wall-plug-efficiencies of up to 9.5% at powers of 6 mW. The lasers are suitable for making power efficient, hybrid WDM transmitters in a CMOS-compatible SOI optical platform.

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Electron. Lett.

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ETRI J.

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IEE Proc., Optoelectron.

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IEEE J. Quantum Electron.

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IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quant.

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J. Lightwave Technol.

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Proc. IEEE

• A. V. Krishnamoorthy, Ron Ho, H. Xuezhe Zheng, Schwetman, P. Jon Lexau, Koka, I. GuoLiang Li, Shubin, and J. E. Cunningham, “Computer systems based on silicon photonic interconnects,” Proc. IEEE 97(7), 1337–1361 (2009). [CrossRef]

Other

• S. Tanaka, S.-H. Jeong, S. Sekiguchi, T. Kurahashi, Y. Tanaka, and K. Morito, “Highly-efficient, low-noise Si hybrid laser using flip-chip bonded SOA,” in IEEE Proceedings of Optical Interconnects Conference (IEEE, 2012), pp. 12–13.
• A. J. Zilkie, B. J. Bijlani, P. Seddighian, W. Qian, D. C. Lee, R. Shafiiha, D. Feng, B. J. Luff, X. Zheng, J. E. Cunningham, A. V. Krishnamoorthy, and M. Asghari, “High-efficiency hybrid III-V/Si external cavity DBR laser for 3-µm SOI waveguides,”in IEEE 9th International Conference on Proceedings of Group IV Photonics, (IEEE, 2012), pp. 317–319.
• B. Ben Bakir, A. Descos, N. Olivier, D. Bordel, P. Grosse, J. L. Gentner, F. Lelarge, and J.-M. Fédéli, “Hybrid Si/III-V lasers with adiabatic coupling,” in Proceedings of IEEE 8th International Conference on Group IV Photonics (IEEE, 2011), pp. 169–171.

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