Huy, Kien Phan, Verbert, Jeremy, Orucevic, Fedja, Mazen, Frederic, Noe, Pierre, Hare, Jean, Lefevre-Seguin, Valerie, Morand, Alain, Benech, Pierre, Jean-Michel, Gerard and Emmanuel, Hadji (2005) Room temperature operation of Er-doped silicon-rich oxide microcavities supporting high-Q whispering-gallery modes. In: Nanophotonic Materials and Systems II, San Diego, CA, USA.

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Abstract

In the past few years, many studies have been carried out to use the ability of light to transport information into silicon-based integrated photonic circuits. The realization of an efficient silicon-based light source is therefore necessary but however challenging. Lasing cannot be easily achieved from silicon emission because of its indirect bandgap. Therefore, one solution proposed is to use other efficient emitters, like rare earth, into silicon or Silicon On Insulator based microcavities. Silica microdisk has been demonstrated to support high-Q whispering-gallery modes, and can be upgraded to ultra-high-Q toroidal microcavities by a CO2 laser melting process. Microdisk high Q-factor balances the low gain generally obtained from the active medium. Thus, those microcavities may be good candidatesfor silicon-based laser. In this paper, the fabrication and roomtemperature operation of silica microdisk associated with Er-doped silicon rich oxide is presented. Er atoms are excited at the 351 nm wavelength via the silicon clusters, giving to the material a high photonic capture section, and therefore a good photoluminescence efficiency. We demonstrate efficient coupling of erbium atoms to high-Q whispering-gallery modes. The photoluminescence spectrum is then theoretically treated. The WGM resonances are thus identified. We also discuss the contribution of the spot excitation and the weak coupling to the higher radial order modes. Finally, the polarization dependence of the observed modes is investigated, and the experimental results are compared to our analytical model of disk-shape cavities. Those results give us to think that an integrated laser should be soon achieved.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Depositing User:	Fedja Orucevic
Date Deposited:	06 Feb 2012 18:27
Last Modified:	30 Nov 2012 17:00
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/16511

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