Evanescent multimode longitudinal pumping scheme for Si-Nanocluster sensitized Er3+-Doped waveguide amplifiers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 3584-3591

  Toccafondo, Veronica ^a   Faralli, Stefano ^a   Di Pasquale, Fabrizio ^a  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Erbium; Integrated optics; Optical amplifier; Silicon photonics

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; NANOCLUSTERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONICS; SILICON; SUGAR (SUCROSE); TWO DIMENSIONAL; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

ACTIVE MATERIALS; ACTIVE REGIONS; ACTIVE WAVEGUIDES; AMPLIFIER LENGTHS; BUTT COUPLINGS; D SPLITS; ERBIUM-DOPED WAVEGUIDE AMPLIFIERS; FINITE ELEMENTS; LED ARRAYS; LONGITUDINAL PUMPING; LOW COSTS; LOW-LOSS WAVEGUIDES; MULTI MODES; MULTI-MODE WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; POPULATION INVERSIONS; PUMP INTENSITIES; PUMP LIGHTS; PUMP SOURCES; PUMPING SCHEMES; RARE-EARTH; SI NANOCLUSTERS; SIGNAL WAVELENGTHS; SILICON PHOTONICS; SINGLE MODES; SLAB WAVEGUIDES; STRONG PUMPS; WAVEGUIDE AMPLIFIERS;

PUMPS;

EID: 61349200352     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.919454     Document Type: Article

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