New Er3+-doped phosphate glass for ion-exchanged waveguide amplifiers

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3282-3286

  Jiang, Shibin ^a,c,d,e,f,g   Luo, Tao ^a,c,e,h   Hwang, Bor Chyuan ^a,i,j,k   Nunzi Conti, Gualtiero ^a,b   Myers, Michael ^c   Rhonehouse, Daniel ^c   Honkanen, Seppo ^a,l,m,n,o   Peyghambarian, Nasser ^a,p,q  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c Kigre Inc   (United States)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^g AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

^h OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^j SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

^l AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^m VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

ⁿ NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^o Photonics Group of Montreal   (Canada)

^p Technical Research Center of Finland ^*

^q AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Amplifier; Erbium; Ion exchange; Laser; Phosphate glass; Waveguide

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001355553     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602013     Document Type: Article

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