Active Er3+ doped lead-niobium-germanate planar waveguides produced by pulsed laser deposition

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4990, Issue , 2003, Pages 30-37

  Balda, R ^a,b   Sanz, O ^c   Gonzalo, J ^c   Jimenez de Castro M ^c   Perea, A ^c   Fernandez Navarro J M ^c   Afonso, C N ^c   Fernandez J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Erbium; Heavy metal oxide glasses; Pulsed Laser Deposition; Thin films

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DOPING (ADDITIVES); EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; ERBIUM; LEAD ALLOYS; LUMINESCENCE OF SOLIDS; OPTICAL GLASS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; THIN FILMS; TRANSPARENCY;

DIGITAL OSCILLOSCOPES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0242693290     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.473585     Document Type: Conference Paper

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