Active waveguide fabrication in erbium doped oxyfluoride-silicate glass using femtosecond pulses

Author

Thomson, R.R. ; Bookey, H.T. ; Psaila, N. ; Campbell, S. ; Reid, D.T. ; Kar, A.K. ; Shen, S. ; Jha, A.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng. & Phys. Sci., Heriot Watt Univ., Edinburgh

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

A channel waveguide exhibiting internal gain under pumping is fabricated inside erbium doped oxyfluoride-silicate glass using a femtosecond laser. The waveguide cross section and refractive index contrast is controlled using a multi-scan technique.

Keywords

erbium; fluoride glasses; high-speed optical techniques; laser materials processing; optical fabrication; optical glass; refractive index; solid lasers; waveguide lasers; SiO₂-Na₂O-Al₂O₃-LaF₃-PbF₂-Er₂O₃; active channel waveguide fabrication; erbium doped oxyfluoride-silicate glass; erbium doped waveguide amplifiers; femtosecond laser pulse; internal gain; multiscan technique; refractive index contrast; waveguide cross section; Erbium; Free electron lasers; Glass; Insertion loss; Loss measurement; Optical device fabrication; Optical waveguides; Refractive index; Ultrafast optics; Waveguide lasers; (060.4510) Optical communications; (250.4480) Optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628353

Filename

4628353