High gain erbium doped tellurium oxide waveguide amplifier

Author

Vu, K. ; Madden, S.

Author_Institution

Laser Phys. Centre, Australian Nat. Univ., Canberra, ACT, Australia

fYear

2011

fDate

22-26 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

This work reports Tellurium oxide EDWAs that exhibit net fiber to fiber gain fabricated using reactive RF magnetron co-sputtered Er doped TeO₂ films. Rib waveguides were fabricated using standard lithography and Reactive Ion Etching (RIE) using a Hydrogen/Methane/Argon gas mix in a layer of pure TeO₂ deposited on top of the Er doped film. The 5cm long single mode waveguides were pumped bi-directionally with two 1480nm pumps.

Keywords

erbium; lithography; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre fabrication; optical films; optical pumping; rib waveguides; sputter deposition; sputter etching; tellurium compounds; TeO₂:Er; bidirectional pumping; fiber-to-fiber gain; high gain erbium doped tellurium oxide waveguide amplifier; hydrogen-methane-argon gas mix; reactive RF magnetron co-sputtered films; reactive ion etching; rib waveguides; single mode waveguides; size 5 cm; standard lithography; wavelength 1480 nm; Erbium; Gain; Glass; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Waveguide lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0533-5

Electronic_ISBN

Pending

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943115

Filename

5943115