Demonstration of an erbium doped microdisk laser on a silicon chip
Optics
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
An erbium doped micro-laser is demonstrated utilizing microdisk resonators on a silicon chip. Passive microdisk resonators exhibit whispering gallery type (WGM) modes with intrinsic optical quality factors of up to and were doped with trivalent erbium ions (peak concentration using MeV ion implantation. Coupling to the fundamental WGM of the microdisk resonator was achieved by using a tapered optical fiber. Upon pumping of the erbium transition at 1450 nm, a gradual transition from spontaneous to stimulated emission was observed in the 1550 nm band. Analysis of the pump-output power relation yielded a pump threshold of 43 W and allowed measuring the spontaneous emission coupling factor: .
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@article{arxiv.physics/0608270,
title = {Demonstration of an erbium doped microdisk laser on a silicon chip},
author = {T. J. Kippenberg and J. Kalkman and A. Polman and K. J. Vahala},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0608270},
year = {2009}
}