Integrated optical amplifiers based on rare-earth doped (red) oxide glasses

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5061, Issue , 2002, Pages 34-40

  Righinil, Giancarlo C ^a   Brenci, Massimo ^a   Conti, Gualtiero Nunzi ^b   Pelli, Stefano ^a   Ferrari, Maurizio ^c   Bettinelli, Marco ^d   Speghini, Adolfo ^d   Chen, Baojiu ^e  

^a IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^b CEO Centro di Eccellenza Optronica   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^e CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OXIDES; POSITIVE IONS; SUBSTRATES;

ERBIUM DOPED GLASS; ERBIUM DOPED PLANAR WAVEGUIDE; INTEGRATED OPTICAL AMPLIFIER;

OPTICAL GLASS;

EID: 1342311941     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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