Large inherent optical gain from the direct gap transition of Ge thin films

The recent demonstration of Ge-on-Si diode lasers renews the interest in the unique carrier dynamics of Ge involving both direct (Γ) and indirect (L) valleys. Here, we report a large inherent direct gap optical gain ≥1300 cm[superscript −1] at room temperature from both tensile-strained n[superscrip...

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Main Authors: Wang, Xiaoxin, Kimerling, Lionel C., Michel, Jurgen, Liu, Jifeng
Other Authors: MIT Materials Research Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Institute of Physics (AIP) 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79733
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3913-6189