An electrically pumped germanium laser

Electrically pumped lasing from Germanium-on-Silicon pnn heterojunction diode structures is demonstrated. Room temperature multimode laser with 1mW output power is measured. Phosphorous doping in Germanium at a concentration over 4x10[superscript 19]cm[superscript −3] is achieved. A Germanium gain s...

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Main Authors: Cai, Yan, Bessette, Jonathan T., Romagnoli, Marco, Kimerling, Lionel C., Michel, Jurgen, Camacho-Aguilera, Rodolfo Ernesto, Patel, Neil Sunil
Other Authors: MIT Materials Research Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Optical Society of America 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79741
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8564-3536
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3913-6189
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Summary:Electrically pumped lasing from Germanium-on-Silicon pnn heterojunction diode structures is demonstrated. Room temperature multimode laser with 1mW output power is measured. Phosphorous doping in Germanium at a concentration over 4x10[superscript 19]cm[superscript −3] is achieved. A Germanium gain spectrum of nearly 200nm is observed.