Direct ultrafast laser written C-band waveguide amplifier in Er-doped chalcogenide glass

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1556-1561

  Sabapathy, Tamilarasan ^a   Ayiriveetil, Arunbabu ^a   Kar, Ajoy K ^b   Asokan, Sundarrajan ^a   Beecher, Stephen J ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1550 NM; BURIED WAVEGUIDE; C-BAND WAVEGUIDE AMPLIFIERS; CHALCOGENIDE GLASS; ER-DOPED; FIBER-TO-FIBER INSERTION LOSS; MELT QUENCHING TECHNIQUES; PROPAGATION LOSS; PUMP POWER;

ERBIUM; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

GLASS;

EID: 84870309738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.2.001556     Document Type: Article

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