CASCADED CAVITY SILICON RAMAN LASER WITH ELECTRICAL MODULATION, SWITCHING, AND ACTIVE MODE LOCKING CAPABILITY

摘要

A silicon Raman laser that can be electrically switched or modulated and which demonstrates active mode-locking capabilities. The laser can be used with a more traditional glass fiber cavity, or can be fabricated on a single chip with a cavity, or a cascaded cavity, in which the chip fabrication is compatible with widely used silicon chip fabrication methods. The laser can be tuned by adjusting a source pump laser to product specific output and operates at room temperature. Output is present in the near- and mid-infrared frequency range, and the laser can simultaneously produce output at the Stokes and at the anti-Stokes wavelengths.