Light emission from erbium-doped nanocrystalline silicon/silicon dioxide layers under strong optical excitation

Pavel K. Kashkarov; Olga A. Shalygina; Denis M. Zhigunov; Dmitri A. Sapun; Sergei A. Teterukov; Victor Yu. Timoshenko; Johannes Heitmann; Michael Schmidt; Margit Zacharias; Kenji Imakita; Minoru Fujii; Shinji Hayashi

doi:10.1117/12.633527

7 June 2005 Light emission from erbium-doped nanocrystalline silicon/silicon dioxide layers under strong optical excitation

Pavel K. Kashkarov, Olga A. Shalygina, Denis M. Zhigunov, Dmitri A. Sapun, Sergei A. Teterukov, Victor Yu. Timoshenko, Johannes Heitmann, Michael Schmidt, Margit Zacharias, Kenji Imakita, Minoru Fujii, Shinji Hayashi

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Proceedings Volume 5850, Advanced Laser Technologies 2004; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.633527
Event: Advanced Laser Technologies 2004, 2004, Rome and Frascati, Italy

Abstract

Photoluminescence properties of Er-doped nanocrystalline Si/ Si0₂ structures have been investigated under strong optical excitation. The energy of optical excitation of Si nanocrystals was shown to be almost completely transferred to Er³⁺ ions in surrounding Si0₂. It was found that at high pump intensity the energy transfer process competes successfully with nonradiative Auger-recombination in Si nanocrystals. At high excitation level the population inversion of Er³⁺ ions was achieved and a decrease of the decay time of the photoluminescence at 1.5 μm was observed. Possible mechanisms of the shortening of the Er³⁺ ion lifetime are discussed.

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Pavel K. Kashkarov, Olga A. Shalygina, Denis M. Zhigunov, Dmitri A. Sapun, Sergei A. Teterukov, Victor Yu. Timoshenko, Johannes Heitmann, Michael Schmidt, Margit Zacharias, Kenji Imakita, Minoru Fujii, and Shinji Hayashi "Light emission from erbium-doped nanocrystalline silicon/silicon dioxide layers under strong optical excitation", Proc. SPIE 5850, Advanced Laser Technologies 2004, (7 June 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.633527

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