Maximal Gain and Optimal Taper Design for Raman Amplifiers in Silicon-on-Insulator Waveguides

Maximal Gain and Optimal Taper Design for Ram

H. Renner, M. Krause, E. Brinkmeyer,
Maximal Gain and Optimal Taper Design for Raman Amplifiers in Silicon-on-Insulator Waveguides
Integrated Photonics Research and Applications Topical Meeting, San Diego, California, April 11-13.
Joint IPRA/NPIS Oral Session: Frontiers in Nanophotonics (Paper JWA3), (2005)

Abstract: We show that free-carrier absorption puts an ultimate upper limit on the total Raman gain in silicon-on-insulator waveguides. The latter can be reached by an appropriate exponential tapering of the effective modal area.

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