An all-silicon Raman laser

Nature

Volumn 433, Issue 7023, 2005, Pages 292-294

  Rong, Halsheng ^a   Liu, Ansheng ^a   Jones, Richard ^a   Cohen, Oded ^b   Hak, Dani ^b   Nicolaescu, Remus ^a   Fang, Alexander ^a   Paniccla, Mario ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT EMISSION; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; QUANTUM THEORY; SILICON;

ALL-SILICON RAMAN LASER; LIGHT GENERATION; SILICON CHIPS; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING (SRS);

RAMAN SCATTERING;

ERBIUM; SILICON; SILICON DIOXIDE;

LASER; SILICON;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; ELECTRON; LASER; LIGHT; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATERIALS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN LASER;

SIGE;

EID: 12744253475     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03273     Document Type: Article

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