• DocumentCode
    421570
  • Title

    On Raman gain in silicon waveguides: limitations from two-photon-absorption generated carriers

  • Author

    Liang, T.K. ; Tsang, H.K.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    16-21 May 2004
  • Abstract
    We show experimentally that free carriers generated by two-photon-absorption in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguides limit the available pump power for stimulated Raman scattering and lead to net optical loss.
  • Keywords
    optical losses; optical pumping; optical waveguides; semiconductor optical amplifiers; silicon-on-insulator; stimulated Raman scattering; two-photon processes; Raman gain; Si; optical loss; pump power; silicon waveguides; silicon-on-insulator waveguides; stimulated Raman scattering; two-photon-absorption generated carriers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-777-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1360762