Optical waveguide amplifier in Nd-doped glass written with near-IR femtosecond laser pulses

Author

Florea, Catalin ; Winick, K.A. ; Sikorski, Y. ; Said, Amir ; Bado, P.

Author_Institution

Appl. Phys. Program, Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

7-12 May 2000

Firstpage

128

Lastpage

129

Abstract

Summary form only given.We present an active waveguide device directly written using near-IR femtosecond laser pulses. The device is a waveguide amplifier in a Nd-doped silicate glass. The material used was a commercially available Nd-doped silicate glass rod. We measured the absorption coefficient of the glass (maximum value of 4.6 cm/sup -1/ at 896 nm) and from this we estimate the Nd doping level to be around 2/spl times/10/sup 20/ ions/cm/sup 3/. We also recorded the fluorescence spectrum when pumping the glass at 806 nm and the peak in the 1.06 /spl mu/m region was localized around 1062 nm.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; laser materials processing; neodymium; optical fabrication; optical glass; optical planar waveguides; waveguide lasers; 1.06 micron; Nd-doped glass; absorption coefficient; active waveguide device; doping level; fluorescence spectrum; near-IR femtosecond laser pulses; near-field mode profile; optical waveguide amplifier; silicate glass rod; Glass; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Optical waveguides; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics; Waveguide lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2000. (CLEO 2000). Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-634-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2000.906817

Filename

906817