Title :
A 40 GHz Mode Locked Silicon Evanescent Laser
Author :
Koch, Brian R. ; Fang, Alexander W. ; Chang, Hsu-Hao ; Park, Hyundai ; Kuo, Ying-hao ; Jones, Richard ; Cohen, Oded ; Raday, Omri ; Paniccia, Mario J. ; Bowers, John E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of ECE, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Abstract :
We demonstrate a mode locked silicon evanescent laser (ML-SEL) which generates a 39.2 GHz pulse stream without requiring any RF drive signal. This passively mode locked laser outputs 3.7 ps pulses which are nearly transform limited and have 18 dB extinction ratio.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; semiconductor lasers; silicon; Si; extinction ratio; frequency 39.2 GHz; mode locked laser; passive mode locking; pulse stream generation; silicon evanescent laser; time 3.7 ps; transform limited pulses; III-V semiconductor materials; Laser mode locking; Optical films; Optical modulation; Optical pulse generation; Optical surface waves; Optical waveguides; Signal generators; Silicon; Waveguide lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics, 2007 4th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0934-1
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2007.4347655
