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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 17, Issue 9, Pages 7479-7490Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.007479
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- Si-based Laser Initiative of the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI)
- Air Force Aerospace Research [FA9550-06-1-0470]
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We investigate the light emission properties of electrical dipole emitters inside 2-dimensional (2D) and 3-dimensional (3D) silicon slot waveguides and evaluate the spontaneous emission enhancement (F-p) and waveguide coupling ratio (beta). Under realistic conditions, we find that greater than 10-fold enhancement in Fp can be achieved, together with a beta as large as 0.95. In contrast to the case of high Q optical resonators, such performance enhancements are obtained over a broad wavelength region, which can cover the entire emission spectrum of popular optical dopants such as Er. The enhanced luminescence efficiency and the strong coupling into a limited set of well-defined waveguide modes enables a new class of power-efficient, CMOS-compatible, waveguide-based light sources. (c) 2009 Optical Society of America
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