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After almost 50 years of laser research, efficient and compact laser sources operating in the mid-infrared region from 2 μm to 5 μm are still lacking. Now, cascaded silicon Raman lasers look set to provide a convenient answer.

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Figure 1: Schematic representation of the cascaded silicon Raman laser demonstrated by Rong and co-workers.

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  1. Hugo Thienpont is in the Department of Applied Physics and Photonics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium. hthienpo@vub.ac.be,

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Thienpont, H. Silicon cascade. Nature Photon 2, 132–133 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2008.11

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