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Silicon Photonics – The Giga Challenge<br />

• Si-based light sources<br />

Electrically pumped<br />

• Lasers, LEDs<br />

• Bulk Si - indirect b<strong>and</strong>gap<br />

e-h recombin<strong>at</strong>ion<br />

• Phonon medi<strong>at</strong>ed<br />

• Slow<br />

Competing processes<br />

• Auger process<br />

• Free carrier absorption

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