Multi-component silica glasses for broad bandwidth, optical amplifiers

Author

Minelly, J.D. ; Ellison, A.J.E.

Author_Institution

Corning Inc., NY, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

11-11 May 2001

Firstpage

352

Lastpage

353

Abstract

Summary form only given. Broadband optical amplifiers are, a key component in delivering the bandwidth of the future. While the silica-based erbium doped fiber amplifier has driven this bandwidth revolution further growth will require exploitation of new materials. It is a remarkable coincidence of nature that the gain window of erbium amplifiers perfectly overlaps the low-loss window of silica transmission fiber. In addition a crucial factor in the success of the EDFA is that even in a silica based host erbium exhibits close to 100% radiative quantum efficiency on the 1530 nm transition.

Keywords

erbium; laser beams; optical fibre amplifiers; optical glass; wideband amplifiers; 100 percent; 1530 nm; 1530 nm transition; EDFA; Er amplifiers; bandwidth; bandwidth revolution; broad bandwidth optical amplifiers; broadband optical amplifiers; gain window; low-loss window; multi-component silica glasses; new materials; radiative quantum efficiency; silica based host; silica transmission fiber; silica-based Er-doped fiber amplifier; Bandwidth; Broadband amplifiers; Doped fiber amplifiers; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Glass; Optical devices; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Silicon compounds; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-662-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2001.947902

Filename

947902