• DocumentCode
    2662477
  • Title

    Energy harvesting in silicon Raman amplifiers

  • Author

    Tsia, Kevin ; Fathpour, Sasan ; Jalali, Bahram

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    13-15 Sept. 2006
  • Firstpage
    231
  • Lastpage
    233
  • Abstract
    A method to recover power lost to two photon absorption is described. Approach is applicable to both Raman and Kerr based devices. CW Raman amplification with negative electrical power dissipation is experimentally demonstrated in silicon
  • Keywords
    Raman lasers; elemental semiconductors; laser beams; optical Kerr effect; semiconductor optical amplifiers; silicon; CW Raman amplification; Kerr based device; energy harvesting; negative electrical power dissipation; silicon Raman amplifier; two photon absorption; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical devices; Optical scattering; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; Power dissipation; Silicon; Stimulated emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics, 2006. 3rd IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Ottawa, Ont.
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0096-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GROUP4.2006.1708223
  • Filename
    1708223