Alexander Fang

ECE Department
Engr. Science Bldg., Rm. 2221G
UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Tel: (805) 893-4883
Fax: (805) 893-7990
Email: awfang [at] ece [dot] ucsb [dot] edu

Alexander Fang received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering with minors in Physics and Mathematics in 2003 from San Jose State University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2005 and 2008, respectively. His dissertation was on "silicon evanescent lasers". His research interests are in the area of hybrid integration on silicon and photonic integrated circuits.

Journal Publications

"Hybrid silicon evanescent approach to optical interconnects," D. Liang, A. W. Fang, H.-W. Chen, M. N. Sysak, B. R. Koch, E. Lively, O. Raday, Y.-H. Kuo, R. Jones, J. E. Bowers, Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing, invited, 2009

"A Distributed Bragg Reflector Silicon Evanescent Laser," A. W. Fang, B. R. Koch, R. Jones, E. Lively, D. Liang, Y.-H. Kuo, J.E. Bowers, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol 20 - 20, p1667-1669, 2008

" Low-Temperature, Strong SiO2-SiO2 Covalent Wafer Bonding for III¨CV Compound Semiconductors-to-Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits," D. Liang, A. W. Fang, H. Park, T. E. Reynolds, K. Warner, D. C. Oakley and J. E. Bowers, Journal of Electronic Materials, Vol. 37, No.8, 2008

"A distributed feedback silicon evanescent laser," A. W. Fang, E. Lively, Y-H. Kuo, D. Liang, J. E. Bowers, OPTICS EXPRESS, Vol. 16, No. 7, pp. 4413-4419, 2008

"Photonic Integration on Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Device Platform," H. Park, A. W. Fang, D. Liang, Y.-H. Kuo, H.-H. Chang, B. R. Koch, H.-W. Chen, M. N. Sysak, R. Jones, and J. E. Bowers, Advances in Optical Technologies, Article ID 682978,, 2008

"A racetrack mode-locked silicon evanescent laser," A. W. Fang, B. R. Koch, K. Gan, H. Park, R. Jones, O. Cohen, M. J. Paniccia, D. Blumenthal, J. E. Bowers, OPTICS EXPRESS, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 1393-1398, 2008

"Experimental and theoretical thermal analysis of a Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Laser," M. N. Sysak, H. Park, A. W. Fang, J. E. Bowers, R. Jones, O. Cohen, O. Raday, and M. Paniccia, Optics Express, Vol., 15 No. 23 Pg: 15041-15046, 2007

"A hybrid AlGaInAs-silicon evanescent preamplifier and photodetector," H. Park, Y.-H. Kuo, A. W. Fang, R. Jones, O. Cohen, M. J. Pannicia, J. E. Bowers, Optics Express, Vol. 15, No. 21, 2007

"Mode-locked silicon evanescent lasers," B. R. Koch, A. W. Fang, O. Cohen, and J. E. Bowers, Optics Express, Vol. 15, No. 18, pp. 11225-11233, 2007

"1310nm silicon evanescent laser," H.-H. Chang, A. W. Fang, M. N. Sysak, H. Park, R. Jones, O. Cohen, O. Raday, M. J. Paniccia, and J. E. Bowers, Optics Express, Opt. Express 15, 11466-11471 (2007), 2007

"Hybrid silicon integration," R. Jones, H. Park, A. W. Fang, J. E. Bowers, O. Cohen, O. Raday and M. J. Paniccia, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, DOI 10.1007/s10854-007-9418-y, 2007

"Hybrid Si evanescent devices," A. W. Fang, H. Park, Y.-H. Kuo, R. Jones, O. Cohen, D. Liang, O. Raday, M. N. Sysak, M. J. Paniccia, and J. E. Bowers, Materials Today, VOLUME 10, NUMBER 7-8, 2007

"A hybrid AlGaInAs-silicon evanescent waveguide photodetector," H. Park, A. W. Fang, R. Jones, O. Cohen, O. Raday, M. N. Sysak, M. J. Paniccia, and J. E. Bowers, Optics Express, Vol. 15, Issue 10, pp. 6044-6052, 2007

"Integrated AlGaInAs-silicon evanescent race track laser and photodetector," A. W. Fang, R. Jones, H. Park, O. Cohen, O. Raday, M. J. Paniccia, and J. E. Bowers, Optics Express, Vol. 15, Issue 5, pp. 2315-2322, 2007

"A Hybrid AlGaInAs-Silicon Evanescent Amplifier," H. Park, A. W. Fang, O. Cohen, R. Jones, M. J. Paniccia, J. E. Bowers, IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS, VOL. 19, NO. 4, 2007

"Design and Fabrication of Optically Pumped Hybrid Silicon-AlGaInAs Evanescent Lasers," H. Park, A. W. Fang, O. Cohen, R. Jones, M. J. Paniccia, J. E. Bowers, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 12, Part 2, page 1657-1663, 2006

"Electrically pumped hybrid AlGaInAs-silicon evanescent laser," A. W. Fang, H. Park, O. Cohen, R. Jones, M. J. Paniccia, and J. E. Bowers, Optics Express, 14, 9203-9210, 2006

"A Continuous-Wave Hybrid AlGaInAs–Silicon Evanescent Laser," A. W. Fang, H. Park, R. Jones, O. Cohen, M. J. Paniccia, J. E. Bowers, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol 18, Issue 10, pg 1143- 1145, 2006

"Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Laser Fabricated With a Silicon Waveguide and III-V Offset Quantum Wells," H. Park, A. W. Fang, S. Kodama, and J. E. Bowers, Optics Express, 13, 9460-9464, 2005

"A Continuous-Wave Raman Silicon Laser," H. Rong, R. Jones, A. Liu, O. Cohen, D. Hak, A. W. Fang, M. Paniccia, Nature, Vol. 433, Pg. 725 - 728, 2005

"Net Continuous Wave Optical Gain in a Low Loss," H. Rong, R. Jones, A. Liu, O. Cohen, D. Hak, A. W. Fang, M. Paniccia, Optics Express, Vol. 13, No. 2, Pg. 519 - 525, 2005

"An All-Silicon Raman Laser," H. Rong, A. Liu, R. Jones, O. Cohen, R. Nicolaescu, A. W. Fang, M. Paniccia, Nature, Vol. 433, Pg. 292 - 294, 2005

Conference Publications

"Hybrid Silicon Tunable Filter Based on a Mach- Zehnder Interferometer and Ring Resonantor," H.-W. Chen, A. W. Fang, J. Bovington, J. D. Peters, J. E. Bowers, Microwave Photonics 09, Valencia, Spain, We 2.3, 2009

"150 mm InP-to-Silicon Direct Wafer Bonding for Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits," D. Liang, A. W. Fang, D. C. Oakley, A. Napoleone, D. C. Chapman, C.-L. Chen, P. W. Juodawlkis O. Raday, J. E. Bowers, 214th Electrochemical Society Meeting (PRiME 2008), Paper 2220, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2008

"Wafer Bonded Silicon Photonics," D. Liang, A. W. Fang, H.-W. Chen, J. E. Bowers, IEEE Avionics, Fiber- Optics and Photonics Technology, Paper WA1 (invited), San Diego, CA, USA, 2008

"Distributed Feedback and Mode Locked Silicon Evanescent Lasers," A. W. Fang, B. R. Koch, E. Lively, D. J. Blumenthal and J. E. Bowers, SSDM 2008, E-9-1 (invited), Tsukuba, Japan, 2008

"A Distributed Bragg Reflector Silicon Evanescent Laser," A. W. Fang, B. R. Koch, R. Jones, E. Lively, D. Liang, Y.-H. Kuo, and J. E. Bowers, IEEE GFP 2008, WD2, Sorrento Italy, 2008

"Silicon Evanescent Optical Frequency Comb Generator," B. R. Koch, A. W. Fang, R. Jones, O. Cohen, M. J. Paniccia, D. J. Blumenthal, and J. E. Bowers, IEEE GFP 2008, WD4, Sorrento Italy, 2008

"Low Temperature, Large Wafer-Scale InP-to-Si Direct Bonding with Vertical Outgassing Channels for Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits," D. Liang, A. W. Fang, J. E. Bowers, Electronic Materials Conference, Paper II2, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 2008

"Low Temperature, Large Wafer-Scale InP-to-Si Direct Bonding with Vertical Outgassing Channels for Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits," D. Liang, A. W. Fang, J. E. Bowers, the 50th Electronic Materials Conference, Paper II2, 2008

"Integrated Hybrid Lasers and Amplifiers on a Silicon Platform," R. Jones, M. N. Sysak, H. Park, A. W. Fang, H.-H. Chang, Y.-H. Kuo, J. E. Bowers, O. Raday, O. Cohen, OFC 2009, San Diego, CA OWM1, 2008

"Distributed Feedback Silicon Evanescent Laser," A. W. Fang, E. Lively, Y.-H. Kuo, D. Liang, J. E. Bowers, OFC/NFOEC, postdeadline session PDP15, 2008

"All-Optical Clock Recovery with Retiming and Reshaping Using a Silicon Evanescent Mode-Locked Ring Laser," B. R. Koch, A. W. Fang, H. N. Poulsen, H. Park, D. J. Blumenthal, and J. E. Bowers, R. Jones and M. J. Paniccia, and O. Cohen, Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC) 2008, Paper OMN1 (Invited), 2008

"Integrated AlGaInAs-silicon evanescent racetrack laser and photodetector," A. W. Fang, R. Jones, H. Park, . Cohen, O. Raday, M. J.Paniccia, & J. E. Bowers, Proc. of SPIE (Photonics West 2008), Vol. 6898 68980M-1, 2008

"Experimental and Theoretical Analysis of Thermal Impedance in a Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Laser," M. N. Sysak, H. Park, A. W. Fang, J. E. Bowers, R. Jones, O. Cohen, O. Raday, and M. Paniccia, LEOS annual meeting 2007, ThR2, 2007

"Hybrid AlGaInAs-silicon evanescent racetrack laser," A. W. Fang, R. Jones, H. Park, O. Cohen, M. J. Paniccia, and J. E. Bowers, LEOS annual meeting 2007, ThR1 (Invited), 2007

"Hybrid III-V and IV lasers and amplifiers," J. E. Bowers, H. Park, A. W. Fang, Y.-H. Kuo, R. Jones, O. Cohen, O. Raday, M. J. Paniccia, European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) 2007, Paper 9.2.1 (Invited), 2007

"1310nm Silicon Evanescent Laser," H.-H. Chang, A. W. Fang, M. N. Sysak, H. Park, Y.-H. Kuo, R. Jones, O. Cohen, O. Raday, M. J. Paniccia, J. E. Bowers, 4th International Conference on Group IV Photonics, Tokyo Japan, wb3, 2007

"A 40 GHz Mode Locked Silicon Evanescent Laser," B. R. Koch, A. W. Fang, H.-H. Chang, H. Park, Y.-H. Kuo, R. Jones, O. Cohen, O. Raday, M. J. Paniccia, J. E. Bowers, 4th International Conference on Group IV Photonics, Tokyo Japan, wb1 (invited), 2007

"Silicon Evanescent Racetrack Laser," A. W. Fang, H. Park, J. E. Bowers, R. Jones, M. J. Paniccia, O. Cohen, O. Raday, Frontiers in Optics 2007, San Jose, California, FTuM3(invited), 2007

"Integrated AlGaInAs-silicon evanescent racetrack laser and photodetector," A. W. Fang, R. Jones, H. Park, O. Cohen, O. Raday, M. J. Pannicia, J. E. Bowers, Optics East 2007, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 6775 67750P-1 (Invited), 2007

"Silicon Evanescent Amplifiers," J. E. Bowers, H. Park, A. W. Fang, R. Jones, M. J. Paniccia, O. Cohen, CLEO Pacific Rim 2007, Seoul, Korea, FA1-2 (invited), 2007

"Hybrid Silicon Integration," R. Jones, H. Park, A. W. Fang, J. E. Bowers, O. Cohen, O. Raday, and M. J. Paniccia, ICOOPMA (The International Conference on Optical, Optoelectronic and Photonic Materials and Applications), London, 2007

"Integrated Optical Amplifiers on Silicon Waveguides," J. E. Bowers, H. Park, Y.-H. Kuo, A. W. Fang, R. Jones,M. J. Paniccia, O. Cohen,O. Raday, IPNRA 2007, invited paper, ITuG1, 2007

"Integrated Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Racetrack Laser and Photodetector," A. W. Fang, R. Jones, H. Park, O. Cohen, O. Raday, M. J. Paniccia, J. E. Bowers, 12th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference, Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan (Invited), 2007

"A hybrid silicon evanescent photodetector," H. Park, A. W. Fang, R. Jones, O. Cohen, O. Raday, M. N. Sysak, M. J. Paniccia, J. E. Bowers, Device Research Conference (DRC 2007), Notre Dam, IN, 2007

"Low Temperature Wafer Bonding for III-V Si Photonic Integrated Circuits," D. Liang, H. Park, A. W. Fang and J. E. Bowers, Electronic Materials Conference, paper L3, 2007

"High speed data amplification using hybrid silicon evanescent amplifier," Y.-H. Kuo, H. Park, A. W. Fang, J. E. Bowers, R. Jones, M. Paniccia, O. Cohen, CLEO 2007, CTuII1, 2007

"Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Photonic Integrated Circuit Technology," J. E. Bowers, A. W. Fang, H. Park, R. Jones, O. Cohen, and M. J. Paniccia, CLEO 2007, CTuQ1, Baltimore MD, 2007

"An electrically pumped hybrid silicon evanescent amplifier," H. Park, A. W. Fang, R. Jones, O. Cohen, J. E. Bowers, Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC 2007), OTuD2, Anaheim CA, 2007

"Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Laser in a Silicon-on-Insulator Waveguide," J.E. Bowers, A. W. Fang, H. Park, R. Jones, O. Cohen, M. J. Paniccia, Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC 2007), OTuK4, Anaheim CA, 2007

"High Temperature Silicon Evanescent Lasers," J. E. Bowers, H. Park, A. W. Fang, R. Jones, O. Cohen, M. J. Paniccia, Photonics West 2007 (PW 2007), Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 6485, invited paper, 2007

"Scalable Wafer Bonding for Active Photonic Devices on Silicon," J. E. Bowers, H. Park, A. W. Fang, R. Jones, O. Cohen, M. Paniccia, LEOS Annual Meeting, TuC1 (Invited), 2006

"40 C Continuous-Wave Electrically Pumped Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Laser," H. Park, A. W. Fang, R. Jones, O. Cohen, M. J. Paniccia, and J. E. Bowers, International Semconductor Laser Conference 2006 (ISLC 2006), post deadline paper, 2006

"Silicon Evanescent Lasers and Amplifiers," J. E. Bowers, A. W. Fang, H. Park, R. Jones,O. Cohen, M. J. Paniccia, Group IV Photonics Conference 2006 (GFP2006), Invited Paper, ThB1, 2006

"Design of Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Amplifiers," J. E. Bowers, H. Park, A. W. Fang, R. Jones, O. Cohen, M. J. Paniccia, COIN 2006, Jeju Korea, 2006

"Hybrid silicon evanescent lasers," J. E. Bowers, A. W. Fang, H. Park, O. Cohen, R. Jones, M. J. Paniccia, Device Research Conference 2006 (DRC 2006), (invited paper) University Park, PA, 2006

"A Technology for Integrating Active Photonic Devices on SOI Wafers," J. E. Bowers, H. Park, A. W. Fang, R. Jones, O. Cohen, and M. J. Paniccia, Indium Phosphide and Related Materials Conference (IPRM 2006), Princeton, NJ, Invited Paper, 2006

"SOI-based monolithic integration of SiON and Si planar optical circuits," O. Cohen, R. Jones, O. Radaya, A. W. Fang, N. Izhakya, D. Rubina, M. Paniccia, Photonics Europe, , 2006

"An optically pumped silicon evanescent laser operating continuous wave at 60 ºC," H. Park, A. W. Fang, R. Jones, O. Cohen, M. J. Paniccia, and J. E. Bowers, Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC 2006), paper OWH2, 2006

"Heterogeneous Integration of Silicon and AlGaInAs for a Silicon Evanescent Laser," A. W. Fang, H. Park, R. Jones, O. Cohen, M. J. Paniccia, J. E. Bowers, Proc. of SPIE 6133, (Photonics West 2006), Vol. 6133, 61330W, San Jose, CA, Invited Paper, 2006

"An Optically Pumped Silicon Evanescent Laser," A. W. Fang, H. Park, S. Kodama, J. E. Bowers, The 31st European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC 2005), SECC, Glasgow, Scotland, 2005

"Novel Laser Diode Structure consisting of a Si Waveguide and Compound-Semiconductor MQW Layers for Si Platform Integration," S. Kodama,, H. Park, A. W. Fang and J. E. Bowers, International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials, Kobe, Japan, 2005

"Integration of SiON Gratings with SOI," R. Jones, O. Cohen, H. Chan, D. Rubin, A. W. Fang and M. Paniccia, GFP 2005 2nd International Conference on Group IV Photonics, Antwerp, Belgium, 2005