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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 16, Issue 17, Pages 13218-13224Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.013218
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- PHOLOGIC [FP6-017158]
- LANCER [FP6-033574]
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We report on visible light emission from Si-nanocrystal based optically active microdisk resonators. The room temperature photoluminescence (PL) from single microdisks shows the characteristic modal structure of whispering-gallery modes. The emission is both TE and TM-polarized in 300 nm thick microdisks, while thinner ones (135 nm) support only TE-like modes. Thinner disks have the advantage to filter out higher order radial mode families, allowing for measuring only the most intense first order modal structure. We reveal subnanometer linewidths and corresponding quality factors as high as 2800, limited by the spectral resolution of the experimental setup. Moreover, we observe a modification of mode linewidth by a factor 13 as a function of pump power. The origin of this effect is attributed to an excited carrier absorption loss mechanism. (C) 2008 Optical Society of America.
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