{"id":215688,"date":"2025-06-10T06:12:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/first-surface-emitting-laser-using-quantum-dots-targets-optical-fiber-communications"},"modified":"2025-06-10T06:12:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:12:57","slug":"first-surface-emitting-laser-using-quantum-dots-targets-optical-fiber-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/first-surface-emitting-laser-using-quantum-dots-targets-optical-fiber-communications","title":{"rendered":"First surface-emitting laser using quantum dots targets optical fiber communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-surface-emitting-laser-using-quantum-dots-targets-optical-fiber-communications2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology of Japan, in collaboration with Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (Sony), has developed the world\u2019s first practical surface-emitting laser that employs quantum dot (QD) as the optical gain medium for use in optical fiber communication systems.<\/p>\n<p>This achievement was made possible by NICT\u2019s high-precision <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/crystal+growth\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">crystal growth<\/a> technology and Sony\u2019s advanced semiconductor processing technology. The surface-emitting laser developed in this study incorporates nanoscale semiconductor structures called <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+dots\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum dots<\/a> as light-emitting materials. This innovation not only facilitates the miniaturization and reduced power consumption of light sources in optical fiber communications systems but also offers potential cost reductions through <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/mass+production\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mass production<\/a> and enhanced output via integration.<\/p>\n<p>The results of this research are <a href=\"https:\/\/opg.optica.org\/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-33-6-12982\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Optics Express.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology of Japan, in collaboration with Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (Sony), has developed the world\u2019s first practical surface-emitting laser that employs quantum dot (QD) as the optical gain medium for use in optical fiber communication systems. This achievement was made possible by NICT\u2019s high-precision crystal growth technology and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}