20-Gbit/s directly modulated photonic crystal nanocavity laser with ultra-low power consumption

Shinji Matsuo; Akihiko Shinya; Chin-Hui Chen; Kengo Nozaki; Tomonari Sato; Yoshihiro Kawaguchi; Hideaki Taniyama; Masaya Notomi

doi:10.1364/OE.19.002242

20-Gbit/s directly modulated photonic crystal nanocavity laser with ultra-low power consumption

Shinji Matsuo, Akihiko Shinya, Chin-Hui Chen, Kengo Nozaki, Tomonari Sato, Yoshihiro Kawaguchi, Hideaki Taniyama, and Masaya Notomi

Optics Express
Vol. 19,
Issue 3,
pp. 2242-2250
(2011)
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.002242

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Shinji Matsuo, Akihiko Shinya, Chin-Hui Chen, Kengo Nozaki, Tomonari Sato, Yoshihiro Kawaguchi, Hideaki Taniyama, and Masaya Notomi, "20-Gbit/s directly modulated photonic crystal nanocavity laser with ultra-low power consumption," Opt. Express 19, 2242-2250 (2011)

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- Original Manuscript: December 6, 2010
- Revised Manuscript: January 15, 2011
- Manuscript Accepted: January 15, 2011
- Published: January 21, 2011
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Abstract

We have demonstrated an ultracompact buried heterostructure photonic crystal (PhC) laser, consisting of an InGaAsP-based active region (5.0 x 0.3 x 0.15 μm³) buried in an InP layer. By employing a buried heterostructure with an InP layer, we can greatly improve thermal resistance and carrier confinement. We therefore achieved a low threshold input power of 6.8 μW and a maximum output power in the output waveguide of −10.3 dBm by optical pumping. The output light is effectively coupled to the output waveguide with a high external differential quantum efficiency of 53%. We observed a clear eye opening for a 20-Gbit/s NRZ signal modulation with an absorbed input power of 175.2 μW, resulting in an energy cost of 8.76 fJ/bit. This is the smallest reported energy cost for any type of semiconductor laser.

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[Crossref]

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[Crossref]

2009 (6)

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[Crossref]

T. Okumura, M. Kurokawa, M. Shirao, D. Kondo, H. Ito, N. Nishiyama, T. Maruyama, and S. Arai, “Lateral current injection GaInAsP/InP laser on semi-insulating substrate for membrane-based photonic circuits,” Opt. Express 17(15), 12564–12570 (2009).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

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[Crossref]

T. Tadokoro, T. Yamanaka, F. Kano, H. Oohashi, Y. Kondo, and K. Kishi, “Operation of a 25-Gb/s direct modulation ridge waveguide MQW-DFB laser up to 85 C,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 21(16), 1154–1156 (2009).
[Crossref]

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[Crossref]

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2008 (3)

Y. Vlasov, W. M. J. Green, and F. Xia, “High-throughput silicon nanophotonic wavelength-insensitive switch for on-chip optical networks,” Nat. Photonics 2(4), 242–246 (2008).
[Crossref]

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[Crossref]

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[Crossref]

2007 (2)

K. Nozaki, S. Kita, and T. Baba, “Room temperature continuous wave operation and controlled spontaneous emission in ultrasmall photonic crystal nanolaser,” Opt. Express 15(12), 7506–7514 (2007).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

T. Tanabe, M. Notomi, E. Kuramochi, A. Shinya, and H. Taniyama, “Trapping and delaying photons for one nanosecond in an ultrasmall high-Q photonic-crystal nanocavity,” Nat. Photonics 1(1), 49–52 (2007).
[Crossref]

2006 (1)

M. Nomura, S. Iwamoto, K. Watanabe, N. Kumagai, Y. Nakata, S. Ishida, and Y. Arakawa, “Room temperature continuous-wave lasing in photonic crystal nanocavity,” Opt. Express 14(13), 6308–6315 (2006).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

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[Crossref]

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[Crossref]

Bergman, K.

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[Crossref]

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[Crossref]

Chang, Y.-C.

Y.-C. Chang and L. A. Coldren, “Efficient, high-data-rate, tapered oxide-aperture vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 15(3), 1–12 (2009).

Chino, D.

Coldren, L. A.

Y.-C. Chang and L. A. Coldren, “Efficient, high-data-rate, tapered oxide-aperture vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 15(3), 1–12 (2009).

De Micheli, G.

L. Benini and G. De Micheli, “Networks on chips: a new SoC paradigm,” IEEE Computer 35, 70–78 (2002).
[Crossref]

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Green, W. M. J.

Y. Vlasov, W. M. J. Green, and F. Xia, “High-throughput silicon nanophotonic wavelength-insensitive switch for on-chip optical networks,” Nat. Photonics 2(4), 242–246 (2008).
[Crossref]

Higurashi, E.

Ide, S.

Ishida, S.

Ito, H.

Iwamoto, S.

Kakitsuka, T.

Kano, F.

Kawaguchi, Y.

Kishi, K.

Kita, S.

Kondo, D.

Kondo, Y.

Kumagai, N.

Kuramochi, E.

M. Notomi, A. Shinya, K. Nozaki, T. Tanabe, S. Matsuo, E. Kuramochi, T. Sato, H. Taniyama, and H. Sumikura, “Low power nanophotonic devices based on photonic crystals towards dense photonic network on chip,” to appear in IET Circ. Dev. Syst.

Kurokawa, M.

Maruyama, T.

Matsuda, M.

Matsuo, S.

Miller, D. A. B.

D. A. B. Miller, “Device Requirements for Optical Interconnects to Silicon Chips,” Proc. IEEE 97, 1166–1185 (2009).
[Crossref]

Mori, K.

Nakata, Y.

Nishiyama, N.

Nomura, M.

Notomi, M.

M. Notomi and H. Taniyama, “On-demand ultrahigh-Q cavity formation and photon pinning via dynamic waveguide tuning,” Opt. Express 16(23), 18657–18666 (2008).
[Crossref]

Nozaki, K.

Okumura, S.

Okumura, T.

Oohashi, H.

Otsubo, K.

Sato, T.

Sawada, R.

Segawa, T.

Shacham, A.

A. Shacham, K. Bergman, and L. P. Carloni, “Photonic networks-on-chip for future generations of chip multiprocessors,” IEEE Trans. Comput. 57(9), 1246–1260 (2008).
[Crossref]

Shinya, A.

Shirao, M.

Suga, T.

Sumikura, H.

Tadokoro, T.

Takada, K.

Tanabe, T.

Tanaka, H.

Taniyama, H.

M. Notomi and H. Taniyama, “On-demand ultrahigh-Q cavity formation and photon pinning via dynamic waveguide tuning,” Opt. Express 16(23), 18657–18666 (2008).
[Crossref]

Vlasov, Y.

Y. Vlasov, W. M. J. Green, and F. Xia, “High-throughput silicon nanophotonic wavelength-insensitive switch for on-chip optical networks,” Nat. Photonics 2(4), 242–246 (2008).
[Crossref]

Watanabe, K.

Xia, F.

Y. Vlasov, W. M. J. Green, and F. Xia, “High-throughput silicon nanophotonic wavelength-insensitive switch for on-chip optical networks,” Nat. Photonics 2(4), 242–246 (2008).
[Crossref]

Yamamoto, T.

Yamanaka, T.

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L. Benini and G. De Micheli, “Networks on chips: a new SoC paradigm,” IEEE Computer 35, 70–78 (2002).
[Crossref]

IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. (3)

Y.-C. Chang and L. A. Coldren, “Efficient, high-data-rate, tapered oxide-aperture vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 15(3), 1–12 (2009).

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A. Shacham, K. Bergman, and L. P. Carloni, “Photonic networks-on-chip for future generations of chip multiprocessors,” IEEE Trans. Comput. 57(9), 1246–1260 (2008).
[Crossref]

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Y. Vlasov, W. M. J. Green, and F. Xia, “High-throughput silicon nanophotonic wavelength-insensitive switch for on-chip optical networks,” Nat. Photonics 2(4), 242–246 (2008).
[Crossref]

Opt. Express (4)

M. Notomi and H. Taniyama, “On-demand ultrahigh-Q cavity formation and photon pinning via dynamic waveguide tuning,” Opt. Express 16(23), 18657–18666 (2008).
[Crossref]

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D. A. B. Miller, “Device Requirements for Optical Interconnects to Silicon Chips,” Proc. IEEE 97, 1166–1185 (2009).
[Crossref]

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C.M. Long, A.V. Giannopoulos, and K.D. Choquette, “Photonic Crystal Band Edge Diode light Emitters,” Proceedings of Indium Phosphide and Related Materials 2009 ThA2.3, 399–402 (2009).

N. Magen, A. Kolodny, U. Weiser, and N. Shamir, “Interconnect-power dissipation in a microprocessor,” Proc. 2004 Int. Workshop System Level Interconnect Prediction, Session Interconnect Anal. SoCs Microprocess., 7–13 (2004).

S. Vangal, J. Howard, G. Ruhl, S. Dighe, H. Wilson, J. Tschanz, D. Finan, P. Iyer, A. Singh, T. Jacob, S. Jain, S. Venkataraman, Y. Hoskote, and N. Borkar, “An 80-Tile 1.28TFLOPS Network-on-Chip in 65nm CMOS,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2007. ISSCC 2007. 98 – 589 (2007).

http://www.itrs.net/Links/2007ITRS/Home2007.htm .

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Fig. 1

Illustration of photonic network chip integrated with multi-core processor. Each photonic switch based on photonic crystal technologies consists of micro-lasers, photodetectors, switches and filters.

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Fig. 2

(a) Schematic diagram of buried heterostructure photonic crystal nanocavity laser. An extremely small active region is buried in a straight-line defect waveguide in an InP-PhC slab. (b) Cross-sectional view of active region. (c) Scanning electron micrograph image of the fabricated BH-PhC laser with an air-bridge structure.

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Fig. 3

Mode profiles calculated by the FDTD method. The active region is inside the line-defect waveguide (a) without an output waveguide and (b) with an output waveguide. Calculated mode profiles (c) without output waveguide, (d) with output waveguide for W_offset = 3a, and (e) with output waveguide for W_offset = 4a, where a is lattice constant.

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Fig. 4

Cross-sectional SEM image of the fabricated BH-PhC laser. The active region was slightly etched after cleaving the device to obtain a SEM image. The active region, consisting of 3 quantum wells, was buried in an InP layer.

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Fig. 5

(a) Light-in versus light-out (LL) characteristics and external differential quantum efficiency of near threshold region on a linear scale for the device with offset 3a. (b) LL characteristics for the device with offsets 3a (red line) and 4a (blue line).

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(a) Experimental setup for direct modulation. Eye diagrams for (b) 15 Gbit/s and (c) 20 Gbit/s NRZ signals.

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Arai, S.

Arakawa, Y.

Baba, T.

Benini, L.

Bergman, K.

Carloni, L. P.

Chang, Y.-C.

Chino, D.

Coldren, L. A.

De Micheli, G.

Ekawa, M.

Green, W. M. J.

Higurashi, E.

Ide, S.

Ishida, S.

Ito, H.

Iwamoto, S.

Kakitsuka, T.

Kano, F.

Kawaguchi, Y.

Kishi, K.

Kita, S.

Kondo, D.

Kondo, Y.

Kumagai, N.

Kuramochi, E.

Kurokawa, M.

Maruyama, T.

Matsuda, M.

Matsuo, S.

Miller, D. A. B.

Mori, K.

Nakata, Y.

Nishiyama, N.

Nomura, M.

Notomi, M.

Nozaki, K.

Okumura, S.

Okumura, T.

Oohashi, H.

Otsubo, K.

Sato, T.

Sawada, R.

Segawa, T.

Shacham, A.

Shinya, A.

Shirao, M.

Suga, T.

Sumikura, H.

Tadokoro, T.

Takada, K.

Tanabe, T.

Tanaka, H.

Taniyama, H.

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