Ming C. Wu (Advisor)

Optical interconnects have displaced electrical wires in data centers and high performance computers due to higher efficiency and bandwidth. The development of on-chip optical interconnects is the next frontier for development, with the promise of reducing on-chip energy consumption. Light emitting diodes have high efficiencies and can achieve low footprint; however, spontaneous emission is typically far too slow to be useful in an interconnect. This can be understood by modeling spontaneous emission as dipole emission with a dipole length on the order of the atomic spacing (~1.3nm) which...