Richard Soref plenary talk: Group IV Photonics for the Mid-Infrared
Presented at SPIE Photonics West 2013
Active heterostructures employing Si, Ge, SiGe, GeSn and SiGeSn are key for laser diodes, photodetectors, LEDs, switches, amplifiers, and modulators that provide totally monolithic foundry integration, while a variety of III-V semiconductor MIR devices offer practical hybrid integration on Si PICs.
Soref is Research Professor of Physics at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. For the past 50 years, he has engaged in basic and applied research, mainly in photonics and semiconductors. In 2006, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the IEEE Group IV Photonics Conference. He is a Fellow of IEEE, OSA, IOP and AFRL.