Low-threshold continuous-wave Raman silicon laser

Nature Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 232-237

  Rong, Haisheng ^a   Xu, Shengbo ^a   Kuo, Ying Hao ^a   Sih, Vanessa ^a   Cohen, Oded ^b   Raday, Omri ^b   Paniccia, Mario ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; CONTINUOUS WAVES; ELECTRICAL POWER SUPPLY; LASER OUTPUT POWER; LOW-THRESHOLD LASING; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; ZERO-BIAS VOLTAGE;

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

SILICON;

EID: 34249868459     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2007.29     Document Type: Article

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