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OPTICS EXPRESS
卷 19, 期 19, 页码 17925-17934出版社
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.017925
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- French Ministry of Industry
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We have investigated the optical properties of tensile-strained germanium photonic wires. The photonic wires patterned by electron beam lithography (50 mu m long, 1 mu m wide and 500 nm thick) are obtained by growing a n-doped germanium film on a GaAs substrate. Tensile strain is transferred in the germanium layer using a Si3N4 stressor. Tensile strain around 0.4% achieved by the technique corresponds to an optical recombination of tensile-strained germanium involving light hole band around 1690 nm at room temperature. We show that the waveguided emission associated with a single tensile-strained germanium wire increases superlinearly as a function of the illuminated length. A 20% decrease of the spectral broadening is observed as the pump intensity is increased. All these features are signatures of optical gain. A 80 cm(-1) modal optical gain is derived from the variable strip length method. This value is accounted for by the calculated gain material value using a 30 band k . p formalism. These germanium wires represent potential building blocks for integration of nanoscale optical sources on silicon. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America
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