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Seeking a Silicon Laser

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Nadya Anscombe, Contributing Editor

Ask today's physics graduates if silicon can produce stimulated emission and show optical gain, and most would say no. But students graduating in the next few years will enter into an optoelectronics industry that has achieved the seemingly impossible: a silicon laser. Silicon microphotonics has boomed in the last few years. Many silicon-based devices have been demonstrated: waveguides, tunable optical filters, fast switches, fast optical modulators, fast CMOS photodetectors, photonic crystals and microelectromechanical systems. But not a laser. A silicon laser would, for the first time,...Read full article

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    Published: February 2003
    Basic ScienceCommunicationsenergyfast optical modulatorsfast switchesFeaturesMicroscopySensors & DetectorsSilicon microphotonicstunable optical filterswaveguides

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