Multilayered waveguides for increasing the gain bandwidth of integrated amplifiers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1613-1620

  Laliotis, Athanasios ^a   Yeatman, Eric M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Er doping; Optical amplifier; Sol gel; Thin films

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SOL-GELS; THIN FILMS; WAVEGUIDES;

GAIN BANDWIDTH; LAMINATED AMPLIFIER; MULTILAYERED WAVEGUIDES;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34250803307     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.895561     Document Type: Article

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