Title :
Fabrication and characterization of a Gallium co-doped Erbium optical fiber
Author :
Dissanayake, K.P.W. ; Abdul-Rashid, H.A. ; Safaei, A. ; Oresegun, A. ; Shahrizan, N. ; Omar, Nasr Y. M. ; Yusoff, Z. ; Zulkifli, M.I. ; Muhamad-Yassin, S.Z. ; Mat-Sharif, K.A. ; Tamchek, N.
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Eng., Multimedia Univ., Cyberjaya, Malaysia
Abstract :
In this paper, fabrication and characterization of a Gallium co-doped Erbium fiber is presented, highlighting Gallium as a new potential co-dopant to be used in rare-earth doped fibers. This fiber was fabricated using standard MCVD and solution doping method. Fiber characterization setups for fluorescence lifetime, absorption and ASE spectrum are discussed in detail. We go on to show that fluorescence lifetime of 6.02 ms, NA of 0.12, cutoff wavelength of 1.4 μm and a peak absorption of 45 dB/m at 1550 nm is achievable using Gallium as the co-dopant for an Erbium doped fiber.
Keywords :
MOCVD; doping; erbium; fluorescence; gallium; infrared spectra; optical fibre fabrication; ASE spectrum; absorption spectrum; fiber characterization setups; fluorescence lifetime; gallium co-doped erbium optical fiber; solution doping method; standard MCVD method; wavelength 1550 nm; Absorption; Doping; Erbium; Gallium; Optical device fabrication; Optical pumping; Photonics; ASE spectrum; Erbium; Gallium; MCVD; Optical fiber; Solution doping; absorption spectrum; fluorescence lifetime; rare-earth doped fiber;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics (ICP), 2014 IEEE 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kuala Lumpur
DOI :
10.1109/ICP.2014.7002327
