Application of defect engineering to silicon Raman lasers and amplifiers

Silicon Raman lasers and amplifiers are the only silicon-based, monolithic device structures in which optical gain has been unambiguously observed. The main limitation on this gain is optical absorption due to free carriers, generated by two photon absorption. Here we explore a means to mitigate carrier effects via defect engineering. The optical and electrical properties of the defected silicon waveguides are modeled for both a uniform defect …