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Silicon lasers: the final frontier

Nature Photonics volume 1, page 240 (2007)Cite this article

People have been trying to get silicon to lase since the first semiconductor laser in the 1960s. Thanks to recent breakthroughs, silicon lasers are finally beginning to take flight. Amber Jenkins spoke to Haisheng Rong, Victor Krutul and Manny Vara at Intel to find out more.

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  1. Amber Jenkins is an associate editor of Nature Photonics and is based in San Francicso. a.jenkins@naturesf.com,

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Jenkins, A. Silicon lasers: the final frontier. Nature Photon 1, 240 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.47

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