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OPTICA
Volume 8, Issue 6, Pages 804-810Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.423833
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- Sentinel North program, a Canada First Excellence Research Fund initiative at Universite Laval
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [STPGP 494358]
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This study demonstrates a high-performance tunable Raman laser on a sub-micrometer-thick silicon wafer, achieving a large wavelength tuning range of 83 nm by adjusting coupling coefficients. The efficient on-chip nonlinear wavelength conversion of this Raman laser indicates the potential for significantly increasing optical spectral resources on a silicon chip.
Stimulated Raman scattering is an effective means of wavelength conversion and can largely extend the operating spectral range of an optical source. We demonstrate a high-performance tunable Raman laser on a sub-micrometer-thick silicon on insulator wafer using a standard foundry process. The key feature to this laser is the use of a tunable coupling mechanism to adjust both pump and signal coupling coefficients in the ring cavity, allowing demonstration of laser emission over a large wavelength tuning range of 83 nm. This Raman laser demonstrates efficient (slope of up to 26% and a maximum pump-to-signal power conversion efficiency of 10%) on-chip nonlinear wavelength conversion. Our results indicate great promise for substantially increasing the optical spectral resources available on a silicon chip. (C) 2021 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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