Internal gain from an erbium-doped oxyfluoride-silicate glass waveguide fabricated using femtosecond waveguide inscription

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 1515-1517

  Thomson, Robert R ^a   Bookey, Henry T ^a   Psaila, Nicholas ^a   Campbell, Stuart ^a   Reid, Derryck T ^a   Shen, Shaoxiong ^b   Jha, Animesh ^b   Kar, Ajoy K ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Femtosecond waveguide inscription; Integrated optics; Optical amplifiers

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; GAIN MEASUREMENT; INSERTION LOSSES; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL GLASS; OPTICAL PUMPING;

CHANNEL WAVEGUIDE; ERBIUM-DOPED OXYFLUORIDE-SILICATE GLASS WAVEGUIDE; FEMTOSECOND PULSES; FEMTOSECOND WAVEGUIDE INSCRIPTION;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33745601672     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.877591     Document Type: Article

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