Silicon Photonics II

Preface.- Silicon wire waveguiding system: Fundamental characteristics and applications.- Polarization issues in silicon waveguide components and their control using cladding stress.- Photonics and electronics integration.- Germanium-on-silicon light emitters.- Grating couplers and polarization diversity in silicon photonics.- Erbium-doped nanocrystalline silicon for light amplification.- Efficient silicon MOSLEDs.- Germanium as a material to enable silicon photonics.- Ultralow power silicon microdisk modulators for on-chip otical interconnects.- Hybrid silicon photonic integrated circuits for optical networking.- Silicon photonics front-end integration in high-speed SiGe BiCMOS

David J. Lockwood earned BSc (1964), MSc (1966), and PhD (1969) degrees in physics at the University of Canterbury and was awarded a DSc in 2000. His doctoral research work was on inelastic light (Raman) scattering from insulators under Professor Alister G. McLellan. He spent 1970-71 as a post-doctoral fellow in physical chemistry with Professor Donald E. Irish at the University of Waterloo working on the vibrational spectroscopy of solvated cations. Dr. Lockwood then moved to Edinburgh University as a research fellow in the group of Professor William Cochran and spent six years there researching the dynamical properties of structural phase transitions and antiferromagnets. As a result of these studies he was awarded a DSc (1978) degree in physics by Edinburgh University. In 1978, Dr. Lockwood joined the Division of Physics of the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada, where he is now a Principal Research Officer in the Institute for Microstructural Sciences.

At NRC, Dr. Lockwood continued his investigations of the electronic and magnetic excitations of antiferromagnets culminating in the classic book on light scattering in magnetic solids co-authored with Professor Michael G. Cottam. Since the mid-1980s he has researched the optical properties of semiconductor heterostructures, superlattices, and more recently, nanostructures. His seminal work on silicon nanostructures resulted in the definitive and widely cited observation of quantum-confined light emission in silicon and also of self-organized growth in superlattice structures. Dr. Lockwood has now published over 550 papers and 22 books on these topics and holds 7 patents.