Title :
Room temperature emission from Er-doped silicon-rich oxide toroidal microcavities
Author :
Verbert, J. ; Mazen, F. ; Charvolin, T. ; Picard, E. ; Calvo, V. ; Noé, P. ; Gérard, J.M. ; Hadji, E. ; Orucevic, F. ; Hare, J. ; Lefèvre-Seguin, V. ; Phan-Huy, K. ; Morand, A. ; Benech, P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. de Recherche Fondamentale sur la Matiere Condensee, CEA, Grenoble, France
Abstract :
We report in this paper room temperature light emission from high-Q erbium-doped silicon-rich oxide microdisks and microtoroids. Spatially resolved photoluminescence allowed us to demonstrate the coupling of erbium ions luminescence to whispering gallery modes.
Keywords :
Q-factor; erbium; integrated optics; micro-optics; microcavities; photoluminescence; silicon compounds; whispering gallery modes; 293 to 298 K; Er-doped microcavities; SiO2:Er; erbium ion luminescence; high-Q microdisks; light emission; microtoroids; room temperature emission; silicon-rich oxide microcavities; spatially resolved photoluminescence; toroidal microcavities; whispering gallery modes; Erbium; Laser excitation; Luminescence; Microcavities; Photoluminescence; Silicon compounds; Spatial resolution; Temperature; Wet etching; Whispering gallery modes;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics, 2005. 2nd IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9070-9
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2005.1516416
