Population inversion and low cooperative upconversion in Er-doped silicon-rich silicon nitride waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 8406-8412

  Chang, Jee Soo ^a   Kim, In Yong ^a   Sung, Gun Yong ^b   Shin, Jung H ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUMINESCENCE; SILICA; SILICON NITRIDE; SILICON OXIDES; WAVEGUIDES;

COOPERATIVE UPCONVERSION; CORE LAYERS; ER-DOPED; EXCESS SI; LUMINESCENCE INTENSITY; OPTICALLY ACTIVE; POPULATION INVERSIONS; PUMP POWER; RESONANT PUMPING; SILICON NITRIDE WAVEGUIDES; SINGLE MODE; TRANSMISSION LOSS;

ERBIUM;

EUROPIUM; SILICON; SILICON DERIVATIVE; SILICON NITRIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; REFRACTOMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EUROPIUM; MATERIALS TESTING; REFRACTOMETRY; SILICON; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79955385063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.008406     Document Type: Article

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