Title :
Sensitized Erbium Doped Planar Optical Amplifiers
Author_Institution :
FOM Inst. for Atomic & Molecular Phys., Amsterdam
Abstract :
Three new sensitizing concepts are demonstrated to improve erbium-doped planar optical amplifiers: Si nanocrystals or Ag+ ions that both couple strongly to erbium ions and make the pump laser obsolete; and electrical pumping in a rare earth doped electroluminescent polymer
Keywords :
electroluminescence; elemental semiconductors; erbium; nanostructured materials; optical fibre amplifiers; optical polymers; silicon; silver; Ag+; Ag+ ions; Si; Si nanocrystals; electrical pumping; erbium doped planar optical amplifiers; pump laser; rare earth doped electroluminescent polymer; sensitizing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2002. ECOC 2002. 28th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Copenhagen
Print_ISBN :
87-90974-63-8