JULY/AUGUST 2014 VOLUME 20 NUMBER 4 IJSQEN (ISSN 1077-260X)

ISSUE ON SILICON PHOTONICS

EDITORIAL
Introduction to the Issue on Silicon Photonics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L. Vivien, P. Cheben, P. L. Guo-Qiang, L. Pavesi, and Z. (James) Zhou 0200403
MODE-LOCKED LASERS
Harmonically Mode-Locked Hybrid Silicon Laser With Intra-Cavity Filter to Suppress Supermode Noise . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. Srinivasan, A. Arrighi, M. J. R. Heck, J. Hutchinson, E. Norberg, G. Fish, and J. E. Bowers 1100208
SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS
Study of Carrier Statistics in Uniaxially Strained Ge for a Low-Threshold Ge Laser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D. Nam, D. S. Sukhdeo, S. Gupta, J.-H. Kang, M. L. Brongersma, and K. C. Saraswat 1500107
OPTICAL MODULATOR TECHNOLOGY
Demonstration and Characterization of High-Speed Silicon Depletion-Mode MachZehnder Modulators (Invited
Paper) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H. Xu, X. Li, X. Xiao, Z. Li, Y. Yu, and J. Yu 3400110
Advances Toward Ge/SiGe Quantum-Well Waveguide Modulators at 1.3m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M.-S. Rouifed, D. Marris-Morini, P. Chaisakul,
J. Frigerio, G. Isella, D. Chrastina, S. Edmond, X. L. Roux, J.-R. Coudevylle, D. Bouville, and L. Vivien 3400207
-Size ITO and Graphene-Based Electro-Optic Modulators on SOI (Invited Paper) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. Ye, S. Khan, Z. R. Li, E. Simsek, and V. J. Sorger 3400310
PHOTODETECTORS
Investigation of Random Telegraph Noise in the Dark Current of Germanium Waveguide Photodetector . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Z. Tu, Z. Zhou, and X. Wang 3800306
On-Chip Optical Power Monitor Using Periodically Interleaved P-N Junctions Integrated on a Silicon Waveguide . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H. Zhu, L. Zhou, X. Sun, Y. Zhou, X. Li, and J. Chen 3800408
Contributions of FranzKeldysh and Avalanche Effects to Responsivity of a Germanium Waveguide Photodiode in
the L-Band. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K. Takeda,
T. Hiraki, T. Tsuchizawa, H. Nishi, R. Kou, H. Fukuda, T. Yamamoto, Y. Ishikawa, K. Wada, and K. Yamada 3800507
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OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES
Modeling the Optical Properties of Low-Cost Colloidal Quantum Dot Functionalized Strip SOI Waveguides . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. Omari, W. Xie, P. Geiregat, D. Van Thourhout, and Z. Hens 4400306
GUIDED-WAVE DEVICES
Numerical Modeling of the Optical Multiplexer on SOI Constructed by Multiple Coupled Waveguides . . . A. Tsarev 4500208
PLASMONICS
Metal Nanoridges in Hollow Si-Loaded Plasmonic Waveguides for Optimal Mode Properties and Ultra-Compact
Photonic Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C.-C. Huang 4600409
PHOTONIC CRYSTAL DEVICES
Development of Polycrystalline Silicon Based Photonic Crystal Membrane for Mid-Infrared Applications . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. P. Ho, P. Pitchappa, P. Kropelnicki, J. Wang, Y. Gu, and C. Lee 4900107
MICRORING RESONATORS
Characterization of Integrated Optical Strain Sensors Based on Silicon Waveguides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W. J. Westerveld,
S. M. Leinders, P. M. Muilwijk, J. Pozo, T. C. van den Dool, M. D. Verweij, M. Youse, and H. P. Urbach 5900110
Intra-Cavity Dispersion of Microresonators and its Engineering for Octave-Spanning Kerr Frequency Comb
Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L. Zhang, J. Mu, V. Singh, A. M. Agarwal, L. C. Kimerling, and J. Michel 5900207
Ultrafast All-Optical Flip-Flops, Simultaneous Comparator-Decoder and Recongurable Logic Unit With Silicon
Microring Resonator Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P. Sethi, and S. Roy 5900308
Optical Crosspoint Matrix Using Broadband Resonant Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P. DasMahapatra, R. Stabile, A. Rohit, and K. A. Williams 5900410
Towards Adaptively Tuned Silicon Microring Resonators for Optical Networks-on-Chip Applications (Invited Paper)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Y. Zhang, Y. Li, S. Feng, and A. W. Poon 5900514
PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
Monolithic Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits for Compact 100
+
Gb/s Coherent Optical Receivers and Transmitters
(Invited Paper). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P. Dong, X. Liu, S. Chandrasekhar, L. L. Buhl, R. Aroca, and Y.-K. Chen 6100108
Hybrid IIIV on Silicon Lasers for Photonic Integrated Circuits on Silicon (Invited Paper) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.-H. Duan, C. Jany, A. Le Liepvre, A. Accard, M. Lamponi, D. Make, P. Kaspar,
G. Levaufre, N. Girard, F. Lelarge, J.-M. Fedeli, A. Descos, B. Ben Bakir, S. Messaoudene, D. Bordel, S. Menezo,
G. de Valicourt, S. Keyvaninia, G. Roelkens, D. Van Thourhout, D. J. Thomson, F. Y. Gardes, and G. T. Reed 6100213
BIOSENSING
Cavity-Waveguide Coupling Engineered High Sensitivity Silicon Photonic Crystal Microcavity Biosensors With High
Yield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Y. Zou, S. Chakravarty, D. N. Kwong, W.-C. Lai, X. Xu, X. Lin, A. Hosseini, and R. T. Chen 6900710
SILICON PHOTONICS SCIENCE
Silicon-Slot-Mediated Guiding of Plasmonic Modes: The Realization of Subwavelength Optical Connement With
Low Propagation Loss. . . . . . . . . . . Y. Bian, Z. Zheng, P. Yang, J. Xiao, G. Wang, L. Liu, J. Liu, J. Zhu, and T. Zhou 8100108
Silicon Photonic Integration PlatformHave We Found the Sweet Spot? (Invited Paper). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D.-X. Xu, J. H. Schmid, G. T. Reed,
G. Z. Mashanovich, D. J. Thomson, M. Nedeljkovic, X. Chen, D. Van Thourhout, S. Keyvaninia, and S. K. Selvaraja 8100217
SILICON PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY
Light Emission
Direct-Current and Alternating-Current Driving Si Quantum Dots-Based Light Emitting Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W. Mu, P. Zhang, J. Xu, S. Sun, J. Xu, W. Li, and K. Chen 8200106
Suppression of Hole Overow and Enhancement of Light Emission Efciency in Si Quantum Dots Based Silicon
Nitride Light Emitting Diodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R. Huang, Z. Lin, Z. Lin, C. Song, X. Wang, Y. Guo, and J. Song 8200306
Blue-Green Light Emission From Si and SiC Quantum Dots Co-Doped Si-Rich SiC p-i-n Junction Diode . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.-Y. Tai, C.-H. Cheng, and G.-R. Lin 8200507
Fast Light-Emitting Silicon-Germanium Nanostructures (Invited Paper) . . . . . . . . . D. J. Lockwood and L. Tsybeskov 8200807
On the Design and Optimization of Three-Terminal Light-Emitting Device in Silicon CMOS Technology . . . . K. Xu 8201208
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Guided-Wave Devices
Silicon-Based Integrated Comb Filter and Demultiplexer for Simultaneous WDM Signal Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L. Xiang, D. Gao, Y. Yu, M. Ye, B. Zou, and X. Zhang 8200208
Wavelength-Division-Multiplexing Devices in Thin SOI: Advances and Prospects (Invited Paper) . . . . . K. Okamoto 8200410
Demonstration of Large Coupling-Induced Phase Delay in Silicon Directional Cross-Couplers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W. J. Westerveld, J. Pozo, S. M. Leinders, M. Youse, and H. P. Urbach 8200706
Large-Scale Silicon Photonic Circuits for Optical Phased Arrays (Invited Paper) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. Sun, E. Timurdogan, A. Yaacobi, Z. Su, E. S. Hosseini, D. B. Cole, and M. R. Watts 8201115
Recent Advances in Silicon Waveguide Devices Using Sub-Wavelength Gratings (Invited Paper) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R. Halir, A. Ortega-Mo nux,
J. H. Schmid, C. Alonso-Ramos, J. Lapointe, D.-X. Xu, J. G. Wang uemert-P erez,

I. Molina-Fern andez, and S. Janz 8201313
Non-Invasive On-Chip Light Observation by Contactless Waveguide Conductivity Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . F. Morichetti, S. Grillanda, M. Carminati, G. Ferrari, M. Sampietro, M. J. Strain, M. Sorel, and A. Melloni 8201710
Design Challenges in Silicon Photonics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W. Bogaerts, M. Fiers, and P. Dumon 8202008
Ultra-Compact Silicon Photonic 512 512 25 GHz Arrayed Waveguide Grating Router . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. Cheung, T. Su, K. Okamoto, and S. J. B. Yoo 8202207
Amorphous-Silicon Inter-Layer Grating Couplers With Metal Mirrors Toward 3-D Interconnection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. Kang, Y. Atsumi, Y. Hayashi, J. Suzuki, Y. Kuno, T. Amemiya, N. Nishiyama, and S. Arai 8202308
Photonic Integrated Circuits
All-Optical Data Inverter Based on Free-Carrier Absorption Induced Cross-Gain Modulation in Si Quantum Dot
Doped SiO
x
Waveguide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C.-L. Wu, S.-P. Su, and G.-R. Lin 8200909
Energy Efcient and Energy Proportional Optical Interconnects for Multi-Core Processors: Driving the Need for
On-Chip Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Martijn J. R. Heck, and John E. Bowers 8201012
Silicon Photonic Wavelength-Tunable Laser Diode With Asymmetric MachZehnder Interferometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T. Kita, K. Nemoto, and H. Yamada 8201806
PhotonicElectronic Integration With Bonding (Invited Paper) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.-M. Fedeli, F. Schrank, E. Augendre, S. Bernab e, J. Kraft, P. Grosse, and T. Enot 8201909
CMOS Compatible Recongurable Silicon Photonic Lattice Filters Using Cascaded Unit Cells for RF-Photonic
Processing (Invited Paper) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
B. Guan, S. S. Djordjevic, N. K. Fontaine, L. Zhou, S. Ibrahim, R. P. Scott, D. J. Geisler, Z. Ding, and S. J. B. Yoo 8202110
Hybrid Laser
Edge Couplers With Relaxed Alignment Tolerance for Pick-and-Place Hybrid Integration of IIIV Lasers With SOI
Waveguides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. Romero-Garca, B. Marzban, F. Merget, B. Shen, and J. Witzens 8200611
Simple Epitaxial Lateral Overgrowth Process as a Strategy for Photonic Integration on Silicon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H. Kataria, W. Metaferia, C. Junesand, C. Zhang, N. Julian, J. E. Bowers, and S. Lourdudoss 8201407
Photodetectors
Germanium Gate PhotoMOSFET Integrated to Silicon Photonics . . . R. W. Going, J. Loo, T.-J. K. Liu, and M. C. Wu 8201607
Mid-IR Photonics
Silicon-Based Photonic Integration Beyond the Telecommunication Wavelength Range (Invited Paper) . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G. Roelkens, U. D. Dave, A. Gassenq, N. Hattasan,
C. Hu, B. Kuyken, F. Leo, A. Malik, M. Muneeb, E. Ryckeboer, D. Sanchez, S. Uvin, R. Wang, Z. Hens, R. Baets,
Y. Shimura, F. Gencarelli, B. Vincent, R. Loo, J. Van Campenhout, L. Cerutti, J.-B. Rodriguez, E. Tourni e, X. Chen,
M. Nedeljkovic, G. Mashanovich, L. Shen, N. Healy, A. C. Peacock, X. Liu, R. Osgood, and W. M. J. Green 8201511
SILICON PHOTONICS APPLICATIONS
Review of Silicon Photonics Foundry Efforts (Invited Paper) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. E.-J. Lim, J. Song, Q. Fang, C. Li, X. Tu, N. Duan, K. K. Chen, R. P.-C. Tern, and T.-Y. Liow 8300112
QUANTUM ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY
Optical Phase Characterization of Photonic Integrated Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. Matres, G. C. Ballesteros, S. Mas, A. Brimont, P. Sanchis, J. Marti, and C. J. Oton 9100105
CORRECTIONS/ERRATA
Corrections to On the Design and Optimization of Three-Terminal Light-Emitting Device in Silicon CMOS
Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K. Xu 9700501
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Call for PapersIEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS Issue on Optical Micro- and
Nano-Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9801701
Call for PapersIEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS Issue on Attosecond
Photonics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9801801
Call for PapersIEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS Issue on Semiconductor
Lasers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9801901