Erbium-doped and Raman microlasers on a silicon chip …
N2 - We report high-Q sol-gel microresonators on silicon chips, fabricated directly from a sol-gel layer deposited onto a silicon substrate. Quality factors as high as 2.5× 107 at 1561 nm were obtained in toroidal microcavities formed of silica sol-gel, which allowed Raman lasing at absorbed pump powers below 1 mW.