Observation of Transparency of Erbium-doped Silicon nitride in photonic crystal nanobeam cavities

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 13863-13873

  Gong, Yiyang ^a   Makarova, Maria ^a   Yerci, Selçuk ^b   Li, Rui ^b   Stevens, Martin J ^c   Baek, Burm ^c   Nam, Sae Woo ^c   Negro, Luca Dal ^b   Vučković, Jelena ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ERBIUM; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PUMPS; RESONANCE; SILICON NITRIDE; TRANSPARENCY;

ABSORPTION BLEACHING; CAVITY RESONANCES; EMISSION RATES; ENHANCED ABSORPTION; ER-DOPED; ERBIUM-DOPED SILICON; LINEWIDTH NARROWING; OPTICAL PUMPS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL CAVITIES; PUMP POWER; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TIME RESOLVED MEASUREMENT;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

ERBIUM; SILICON DERIVATIVE; SILICON NITRIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LUMINESCENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ERBIUM; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77953845765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.013863     Document Type: Article

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