Rare earth chromophores for polymer optical waveguide amplifiers

Author

Koeppen, C. ; Gao, R. ; Yamada, S. ; Garito, A.F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

10-13 Nov 1997

Firstpage

254

Abstract

One promising candidate for amplification of the many we have studied is Sm(HFFA)₄NEt₄ in PMMA-d₈ operating at 650 nm. The metastable state lifetime and emission cross-section for this system are found to be 194 μs and 4.5×10 ^-21 cm² respectively. These optical properties have been used to numerically simulate the performance of corresponding thin film waveguide amplifiers

Keywords

laser transitions; metastable states; optical films; optical polymers; optical waveguides; solid lasers; waveguide lasers; 194 mus; 650 nm; PMMA-d₈; Sm(HFFA)₄NEt₄; emission cross-section; metastable state lifetime; numerically simulate; optical properties; rare earth chromophore polymer optical waveguide amplifiers; thin film waveguide amplifiers; Absorption; Metastasis; Optical amplifiers; Optical films; Optical polymers; Optical pumping; Optical waveguides; Particle beam optics; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1997. LEOS '97 10th Annual Meeting. Conference Proceedings., IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3895-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1997.645403

Filename

645403