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Silicon as an emissive optical medium
Author(s) -
Shainline J.M.,
Xu J.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
laser and photonics reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.778
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1863-8899
pISSN - 1863-8880
DOI - 10.1002/lpor.200710021
Subject(s) - silicon , photonics , materials science , optoelectronics , silicon photonics , light emission , hybrid silicon laser , semiconductor , fabrication , nanotechnology , laser , engineering physics , optics , physics , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
Abstract One of the great challenges in photonics has been to modify silicon to enhance light emission properties. In this review article we survey recent studies which have generated light from silicon in a variety of ways including introduction of emissive centers, anodization, fabrication of quantum‐confined structures and by utilizing non‐linear effects. Each method offers insight into silicon as an emissive medium, but no one method has proven effective enough a light source to compete with established technologies based on III‐V and II‐VI compound semiconductors, and in particular no one method of inducing light emission in silicon has made possible an electrically‐pumped silicon laser.