Electrically pumped silicon waveguide light sources

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 24569-24576

  Jayatilleka, Hasitha ^a   Nasrollahy Shiraz, Arsam ^a   Kenyon, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT SOURCES; NANOWIRES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

ACTIVE LAYER; CMOS PROCESSING; ELECTRICALLY PUMPED; EMISSIVE LAYERS; ERBIUM ION; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; HIGH QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; OVERLAYERS; PLASMONIC COUPLING; RADIATIVE RATES; SILICON NANOCLUSTERS; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON RIB WAVEGUIDES; SILICON WAVEGUIDE;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

NANOMATERIAL; SILICON;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SILICON; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 82055192175     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.024569     Document Type: Article

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