Polymer optical fiber amplifiers

Author

Caspary, Reinhard ; Schütz, Simon ; Möhl, Sophia ; Cichosch, Alexander ; Johannes, Hans-Hermann ; Kowalsky, Wolfgang

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Hochfrequenztech., Tech. Univ. Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

2-5 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We develop Europium complexes and are now integrating them covalently into the polymer chains of PMMA. Monomer free polymer preforms are prepared, from which optical fibers are drawn. Our aim is to use these fibers as optical amplifiers at about 614 nm for in-house communication systems. In this paper we present the current state of the material development as well as optical measurements.

Keywords

europium compounds; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre fabrication; optical polymers; polymer fibres; preforms; PMMA; europium complexes; in-house communication systems; material development; monomer free polymer preforms; optical measurements; polymer chains; polymer optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks; Polymers; Preforms; Europium; fiber amplifiers; fiber fabrication; polymer optical fibers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2012 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coventry

ISSN

2161-2056

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2228-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2012.6253750

Filename

6253750