Title :
Pump-probe measurements in silicon-rich nitride waveguides and resonators doped with erbium
Author :
Olaosebikan, Debo ; Gondarenko, Alexander ; Preston, Kyle ; Lipson, Michal ; Yerci, Selcuk ; Li, Rui ; Negro, Luca Dal
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
Abstract :
We report a suppression, attributed to erbium stimulated emission, of the photoinduced absorption of a 1.53 um probe in erbium doped silicon rich nitride waveguides. Resonators with record high quality factors >14,000 are achieved.
Keywords :
Q-factor; light absorption; optical resonators; optical waveguides; stimulated emission; Jk:Er; nitride waveguides; photoinduced absorption; pump-probe measurements; quality factor; stimulated emission; Erbium; (140.3410) Laser Resonators; (140.3500) Lasers, Erbium; (140.5560) Pumping;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-869-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-869-8
