Silicon Photonics IV

PART 1: Advances in Fundamental Research.- Enhanced optical properties of Si nanocrystals.- Inversion-based lasing and Raman lasing in doped silicon.- Reduced graphene oxide-Ge quantum dot nanocomposites.- Stimulated emission in the near infrared from disordered Ge dots.- Lasing in strained Ge microbridges.- Obtaining efficient light emission from crystalline Ge nanostructures.- Spin-based light emission in group IV semiconductors.- Exceptional points sensing with silicon photonics.- Topological photonics in array of silicon microresonators.- Entangled photon generations in silicon photonics.- Sn lasing in silicon.- PART 2: New Technologies.- Parallel digital gradient search technique for rapid automated alignment of devices on silicon photonics integrated circuits.- All optical neural networks based on silicon optical chips.- Transformative optics in regard to planar silicon photonic devices for optical switching and optical computing techniques.- Subwavelength grating periodic structures in silicon-on-insulator technology.- Silicon photonics transceivers for data centers.

David J. Lockwood obtained his Ph.D. in physics from Canterbury University (Cantuar), New Zealand in 1969, and he was awarded a D.Sc. in 1978 from Edinburgh University, U.K. and a D.Sc. from Canterbury University in 2000 for his work on the electronic, optical, and magnetic properties of solids. He carried out post-doctoral work in physical chemistry at Waterloo University, Canada (1970-1971), and was a Research Fellow in Edinburgh University (1972-1978) before joining the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada in 1978 where he is presently a Researcher Emeritus. At NRC, Lockwood's research has centered on the optical properties of low dimensional materials and recently has focused on Group IV and III-V semiconductor quantum dots and transition-metal magnetic nanostructures. Lockwood has published more than 650 scientific articles in journals and books and has 6 U.S. patents. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics, andthe Electrochemical Society and served on the editorial boards of 6 physics journals as well as being the founding editor of the Springer-Nature book series "Nanostructure Science and Technology". In 2005 he was awarded the Brockhouse Medal of the Canadian Association of Physicists for outstanding achievement in condensed matter and materials physics and the Tory Medal of the Royal Society of Canada for outstanding research in any branch of astronomy, chemistry, mathematics, physics, or an allied science. In 2008 he received the Exact and Natural Sciences Award of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba, in 2010 the Centennial Outstanding Achievement Award of the Electrochemical Society, and in 2011 the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Canadian Semiconductor Science and Technology Conference. In October 2012, a Symposium in his honour was held at the Electrochemical Society Fall Meeting in Honolulu. In 2013 he was awarded the Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Physics from the Canadian