Carrier lifetime in erbium-doped GaN waveguide emitting in 1540 nm wavelength

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2010Author
Wang, Q.
Hui, Rongqing
Dahal, R.
Lin, J. Y.
Jiang, Hongxing
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American Institute of Physics
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Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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We report the characteristics of an erbium-doped GaNsemiconductorwaveguideamplifier grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. We demonstrated that both 980 and 1480 nm optical pumping were efficient to create population inversion between the I413/2 and I415/2 energy levels. The carrier lifetime in the I413/2 energy band was measured to be approximately 1.5 ms in room temperature, which is slightly shorter than that in erbium-doped silica due to the interaction between the erbium ions and the semiconductor lattice structure. But it is significantly longer than the carrier lifetime in a typical semiconductor optical amplifier which is in the nanosecond regime.
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Wang, Q., R. Hui, R. Dahal, J. Y. Lin, and H. X. Jiang. "Carrier Lifetime in Erbium-doped GaN Waveguide Emitting in 1540 Nm Wavelength." Appl. Phys. Lett. Applied Physics Letters 97.24 (2010): 241105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3527089
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