• DocumentCode
    2102979
  • Title

    Noise Figure of Silicon Raman Amplifiers

  • Author

    Dimitropoulos, Dimitrios ; Solli, Daniel R. ; Boyraz, Ozdal ; Jalali, Bahram

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of California, Los Angeles
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    21-25 Oct. 2007
  • Firstpage
    521
  • Lastpage
    522
  • Abstract
    Quantum mechanical Langevin calculations show nonlinear absorption significantly degrades the noise figure of silicon Raman amplifiers, and lifetimes in the 20 ps range or less are needed to approach the theoretical limit of 3 dB noise figure.
  • Keywords
    Raman lasers; elemental semiconductors; laser noise; semiconductor lasers; silicon; Si; carrier lifetime; noise figure; nonlinear absorption; nonlinear losses; pump intensity; quantum mechanical Langevin calculations; silicon Raman amplifiers; waveguide losses; Absorption; Noise figure; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical losses; Optical noise; Optical pumping; Optical waveguides; Silicon; Stimulated emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2007. LEOS 2007. The 20th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Lake Buena Vista, FL
  • ISSN
    1092-8081
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-0925-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1092-8081
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2007.4382509
  • Filename
    4382509
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2102979