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25 August 2008Laser modelocking and dual wavelength lasing in silicon
Nonlinear optics in silicon has drawn substantial attention in the recent years. In this research, laser mode-locking and
dual wavelength lasing are achieved in a fiber-ring-cavity using an Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) as a gain
medium and a 1.7cm long silicon-on-insular waveguide as pulse compressor, a mode-locker and a Raman gain media.
We show that the transient behavior of two photon absorption (TPA) and TPA induced free carrier absorption can be
used for pulse compression and laser modelocking in the silicon waveguide inside the laser cavity. The proposed
technique takes advantage of spontaneous generation of free carriers and the slow recombination time, >17ns, to
attenuate the trailing edge of the time varying signals passing through the waveguide. When a 5μm2 model area silicon
waveguide is placed inside a fiber ring cavity consisting of an EDFA as a gain media and ~50ps modelocked laser pulses
are generated at 1540nm. We also observe that the generated short pulses also induce stimulated Raman scattering at
1675nm in the same silicon waveguide. We show that engineering the laser cavity facilitates laser modelocking and dual
wavelength laser oscillation at 1540nm and 1675nm. Experimentally we obtain <100ps modelocked pulses at both wavelengths. The average pump threshold power of the Raman laser is measured to be 3.75mW and the Stokes average output power is measured to be 3 μW.
En-Kuang Tien,Xinzhu Sang, andOzdal Boyraz
"Laser modelocking and dual wavelength lasing in silicon", Proc. SPIE 7056, Photonic Fiber and Crystal Devices: Advances in Materials and Innovations in Device Applications II, 70561W (25 August 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.794459
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En-Kuang Tien, Xinzhu Sang, Ozdal Boyraz, "Laser modelocking and dual wavelength lasing in silicon," Proc. SPIE 7056, Photonic Fiber and Crystal Devices: Advances in Materials and Innovations in Device Applications II, 70561W (25 August 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.794459