• DocumentCode
    1646147
  • Title

    Investigation of erbium-doped tellurite glasses for a planar waveguide power amplifier at 1.57μm

  • Author

    Mackenzie, Jacob I. ; Murugan, G.S. ; Suzuki, Takumi ; Ohishi, Yasutake ; Yu, A.W. ; Abshire, James B.

  • Author_Institution
    Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Comparing gain in Er-doped tellurite glasses for CO2 absorption measurements, a maximum gain of 2.2dB/cm with 8 ms fluorescence lifetime has been obtained at 1572 nm using a 974 nm pump with intensity of 8kW/cm2.
  • Keywords
    atmospheric techniques; carbon compounds; erbium; fluorescence; optical glass; optical planar waveguides; power amplifiers; solid lasers; tellurium compounds; waveguide lasers; CO2; TeO2ZnOMgOB2O3; carbon dioxide absorption measurements; erbium-doped tellurite glasses; fluorescence lifetime; planar waveguide power amplifier; time 8 ms; wavelength 1572 nm; wavelength 974 nm; Absorption; Atmospheric measurements; Extraterrestrial measurements; Gain; Gain measurement; Glass; Wavelength measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6325383