Er-Yb waveguide amplifiers in novel silicate glasses

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 536-541

  Ondráček, František ^a   Jágerská, Jana ^a,b   Salavcová, Linda ^c   Míka, Martin ^c   Špirková, Jarmila ^c   Čtyroky̌, Jiří ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHOTONICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Czech Republic)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Channel waveguides; Er Yb doped glass; Ion exchange; Optical waveguide amplifier

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE DEVICES; ACTIVE WAVEGUIDES; CHANNEL WAVEGUIDES; CO-DOPED; ER CONCENTRATIONS; ER-YB-DOPED GLASS; GAIN VALUES; NUMERICAL MODELS; ON CHIPS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE AMPLIFIER; PROPAGATION LOSS; RARE-EARTH DOPANTS; SILICATE GLASS; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; STRAIGHT CHANNELS; UP CONVERSIONS; WAVEGUIDE AMPLIFIERS; ZNO;

CHEMICAL STABILITY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC LOSSES; ERBIUM; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS; GLASS; GLASS CERAMICS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; ION EXCHANGERS; IONS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES; QUENCHING; SILICATES; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; WAVEGUIDES; YTTERBIUM; ZINC OXIDE;

ION EXCHANGE;

EID: 65349113906     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2008.918302     Document Type: Article

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