Patent ID: 9690042
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G02B,H01L

Claim:
1. A bulk-silicon photonic input/output device comprising: a bulk silicon substrate; at least one vertical-input light detection element monolithically integrated on a portion of the bulk silicon substrate; and at least one vertical-output light source element monolithically integrated on another portion of the bulk silicon substrate, wherein the at least one vertical-input light detection element is comprised of an active layer grown directly on the bulk silicon substrate; wherein the at least one vertical-input light detection element includes a bulk-germanium, germanium-based quantum dots, a germanium-based quantum wire array, a Ge wherein the at least one vertical-output light source element includes a monolithic light output device structure, based on a wafer-bonded thin-film III-V compound semiconductor active layer directly wafer-bonded and monolithic-integrated on the bulk silicon substrate.