Reducing the free-carrier lifetime in silicon waveguides by controlled Au doping

Reducing the free-carrier lifetime in silicon wave

A. Gajda, Jost Müller, O. Nobis, J. Bruns, I. Giuntoni, M. Krause, H. Renner, K. Petermann, E. Brinkmeyer,
Reducing the free-carrier lifetime in silicon waveguides by controlled Au doping
5th International Conference on Group IV Photonics (GFP), Sorrento, Italy, 17-19 September (Paper WP34), (2008)

Abstract: We show a reduction of the free-carrier lifetime in silicon-on-insulator waveguides as a result of gold doping. Linear losses as well as temporal recombination processes have been measured at different doping levels.

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