Abstract
We report quantification of the free-carrier absorption (FCA) cross section in silicon nanocrystals embedded in a thin film at 1540 nm using a collinear pump–probe method. To this end, we measured the pump-intensity dependence of both the light transmission through the film and the photoexcited carrier density in the nanocrystals. From these measurements, we extracted a FCA cross section of , consistent with previous results in the visible range and the known scaling behavior of this quantity. Given the rapidly rising prevalence of silicon-based active photonic devices, our finding assumes particular significance for Si-nanocrystal-sensitized rare-earth-atom lasers and all optical switches at important telecom wavelengths.
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