DocumentCode
795398
Title
Cascaded silicon Raman lasers as mid-infrared sources
Author
Krause, Markus ; Draheim, R. ; Renner, Herwig ; Brinkmeyer, Ernst
Author_Institution
Tech. Univ. Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg
Volume
42
Issue
21
fYear
2006
Firstpage
1224
Lastpage
1225
Abstract
It is shown by numerical simulations that cascaded silicon Raman lasers, in which the pump light undergoes multiple Stokes shifts in a silicon waveguide, can efficiently convert near-IR to mid-IR radiation. For pump wavelengths significantly below 2 mum, two-photon-absorption-induced free-carrier absorption degrades conversion efficiency, and the effective carrier lifetime determines the shortest possible pump wavelength
Keywords
Raman lasers; infrared sources; numerical analysis; optical pumping; silicon; solid lasers; spectroscopic light sources; waveguide lasers; Si; Stokes shifts; carrier lifetime; cascaded silicon Raman lasers; conversion efficiency; infrared radiation; numerical simulations; photon-absorption-induced free-carrier absorption; pump light; pump wavelengths; silicon waveguide;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
Filename
1715195
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