New methods and ideas in silicon-compatible photonics

这个发现补助金提案是用于研究开发新的硅基和硅兼容的光子光发射器的计划。 这些将作为新一代片上光学互连信息处理设备的主力，这将彻底改变广泛的高性能计算应用。 所有这些应用都需要开发一种电泵浦硅基半导体激光器，这种器件从未被制造出来，因为普通的晶体硅是一种不能发光的间接带隙半导体。 然而，在1990年，它被证明，改性硅可以是一个光发射器。 目前，世界各地的工业界和学术研究团体都在积极追求的目标是成为第一个制造出可以与现有硅基计算机芯片集成的工作电泵浦硅激光器件的目标。 比赛正在进行，我们的目标是成为世界上第一个实现这一壮举的实验室。

This Discovery Grant proposal is for a program of research into the development of new silicon-based and silicon-compatible photonic light emitters. These will serve as the workhorses for a new generation of on-chip optically interconnected information-processing devices which will revolutionize a wide range of high-performance computing applications. All these applications require the development of an electrically pumped silicon-based semiconductor laser, a device which has never been fabricated because ordinary crystalline silicon is an indirect bandgap semiconductor which cannot emit light. However, in 1990 it was demonstrated that modified silicon can be a light emitter. Currently industry and academic research groups all around the world are aggressively pursuing the goal of being the first to fabricate a working electrically-pumped silicon laser device which can be integrated with existing silicon-based computer chips. The race is on, and we aim to be the first laboratory in the world to achieve this feat.