Title : 
Er3+ absorption cross section in Si-nanocrystal waveguides in SiO2
         
        
            Author : 
Melchiorri, M. ; Daldosso, N. ; Navarre, D. ; Pavesi, L. ; Gourbilleau, F. ; Carrada, M. ; Rizk, R.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dipartimento di Fisica, Trento Univ., Povo, Italy
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper reports on Er3+ absorption cross section measurement by transmission measurements in waveguide σabs measured value is 0.5-1.7 × cm at 1534 nm for all samples resulting very close to that of Er3+ in pure silica.
         
        
            Keywords : 
elemental semiconductors; erbium; nanostructured materials; optical waveguides; silicon; Er3+ absorption cross section; Si-nanocrystal waveguides; Si:Er3+; pure silica; transmission measurements; Absorption; Erbium; Face detection; Insertion loss; Light scattering; Loss measurement; Optical films; Optical scattering; Rayleigh scattering; Wavelength measurement;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Group IV Photonics, 2005. 2nd IEEE International Conference on
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-9070-9
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/GROUP4.2005.1516424