Electrically-driven Silicon Laser
- Detailed Technology Description
- An all-silicon, in-plane, electrically driven laser or RCLED based on slot-waveguides is described which is suitable forcoupling with POF to replace copper cables in high-volume markets such as home networks.
- Others
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- Patents: US7,606,455; CN200680050370.X; EP1955383
- Carlos Angulo Barrios and Michal Lipson, Electrically driven silicon resonant light emitting device based on slot-waveguide, Opt. Express 13, 25, 10092-10101 (2005)
- Kyle Preston and Michal Lipson, Slot waveguides with polycrystalline silicon for electrical injection, Opt. Express 17, 3,1527-1534 (2009)
- *Abstract
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An all-silicon, in-plane, electrically driven laser or RCLED based on slot-waveguides is described. This micron-sized silicon device can be coupled with POF to replace copper cables in home networks or other high-volume markets where glass fiber is cost-prohibitive. POF is light weight, easy to terminate, insensitive to electromagnetic interference, and has significantly lower installed cost compared to the alternatives. Quality factors as high as 33,000 were predicted in simulations.
Potential Commercial Applications:
- Telecommunications
- Data communications products
Advantages:
- Enables low-cost POF alternative
- Permits electrical injection
- High optical mode-active material overlap
- CMOS compatible
- Small size
- High quality factor (Q)
- *Licensing
- Patrick Govangpjg26@cornell.edu(607) 254-2330
- Country/Region
- USA
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