• DocumentCode
    2984741
  • Title

    Erbium doped waveguide amplifiers (EDWAs) fabricated via a single sol-gel deposition technique

  • Author

    Thomson, R.R. ; Bookey, H.T. ; Kar, A.K. ; Rebman, H.Ur. ; Liu, S. ; Suyal, N.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Eng. & Phys. Sci., Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh, UK
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    22-27 May 2005
  • Firstpage
    1688
  • Abstract
    In this paper we present erbium absorption, gain, fluorescence lifetime and waveguide loss characterisation results for erbium doped waveguide amplifiers (EDWAs) fabricated using a single sol-gel deposition for each of the core and cladding layers.
  • Keywords
    cladding techniques; erbium; fluorescence; optical fabrication; optical losses; sol-gel processing; solid lasers; waveguide lasers; EDWA fabrication; cladding layer; core layer; erbium absorption; erbium doped waveguide amplifiers; fluorescence lifetime; optical gain; sol-gel deposition; waveguide loss characterisation; Absorption; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fluorescence; Glass; Optical amplifiers; Optical attenuators; Optical films; Optical waveguides; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-795-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2005.202242
  • Filename
    1573308