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Observation of Transparency of Erbium-doped Silicon nitride in photonic crystal nanobeam cavities

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Author(s)

Yiyang Gong, Maria Makarova, Selcuk Yerci, Rui Li, Martin Stevens, Burm Baek, Sae Woo Nam, Luca Dal Negro, Jelena Vuckovic

Abstract

One dimensional nanobeam photonic crystal cavities are fabricated in an Er-doped amorphous silicon nitride layer. Photoluminescence from the cavities around 1.54 mm is studied at cryogenic and room temperatures at different optical pump powers. The resonators demonstrate Purcell enhanced absorption and emission rates, also confirmed by time resolved measurements. Resonances exhibit linewidth narrowing with pump power, signifying absorption bleaching and the onset of stimulated emission in the material at both 5.5 K and room temperature. We estimate from the cavity linewidths that Er has been pumped to transparency at the cavity resonance wavelength.
Citation
Optics Express
Volume
18
Issue
13863

Keywords

erbium, silicon photonics, single-photon detectors

Citation

Gong, Y. , Makarova, M. , Yerci, S. , Li, R. , Stevens, M. , Baek, B. , Nam, S. , Dal Negro, L. and Vuckovic, J. (2010), Observation of Transparency of Erbium-doped Silicon nitride in photonic crystal nanobeam cavities, Optics Express, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=905119 (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created June 13, 2010, Updated October 12, 2021