Title :
Multi-component silica glasses for broad bandwidth, optical amplifiers
Author :
Minelly, J.D. ; Ellison, A.J.E.
Author_Institution :
Corning Inc., NY, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. Broadband optical amplifiers are, a key component in delivering the bandwidth of the future. While the silica-based erbium doped fiber amplifier has driven this bandwidth revolution further growth will require exploitation of new materials. It is a remarkable coincidence of nature that the gain window of erbium amplifiers perfectly overlaps the low-loss window of silica transmission fiber. In addition a crucial factor in the success of the EDFA is that even in a silica based host erbium exhibits close to 100% radiative quantum efficiency on the 1530 nm transition.
Keywords :
erbium; laser beams; optical fibre amplifiers; optical glass; wideband amplifiers; 100 percent; 1530 nm; 1530 nm transition; EDFA; Er amplifiers; bandwidth; bandwidth revolution; broad bandwidth optical amplifiers; broadband optical amplifiers; gain window; low-loss window; multi-component silica glasses; new materials; radiative quantum efficiency; silica based host; silica transmission fiber; silica-based Er-doped fiber amplifier; Bandwidth; Broadband amplifiers; Doped fiber amplifiers; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Glass; Optical devices; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Silicon compounds; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-662-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2001.947902
