Cascaded silicon Raman lasers as mid-infrared sour
M. Krause, R. Draheim, H. Renner, E. Brinkmeyer, Cascaded silicon Raman lasers as mid-infrared sources Electron. Lett. 42(21), pp. 1224-1226 (2006)
Abstract: We show by numerical simulations that cascaded silicon Raman lasers, in which the pump light undergoes multiple Stokes shifts in a silicon waveguide, can efficiently convert near-IR to mid-IR radiation. For pump wavelengths significantly below 2 µm, two-photon-absorption-induced free-carrier absorption degrades conversion efficiency, and the effective carrier lifetime determines the shortest possible pump wavelength.