• DocumentCode
    2005616
  • Title

    Design and characterization of ultra-compact Er-doped waveguide amplifier based on bismuthate glass

  • Author

    Ono, M. ; Kondo, Y. ; Kageyama, J. ; Hayashi, H. ; Sugimoto, N.

  • Author_Institution
    Asahi Glass Co. Ltd., Yokohama
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    5-10 March 2006
  • Abstract
    We have designed and evaluated two types of spiral lightwave circuits for 1-cm2-size high performance waveguide amplifier. Circle-spiral layout is found to show higher performance compared to square-spiral layout because of low bending loss
  • Keywords
    bending; bismuth compounds; erbium; optical glass; optical losses; solid lasers; waveguide lasers; Bi3O3:Er; Er-doped waveguide amplifier; bending loss; bismuthate glass; circle-spiral layout; spiral lightwave circuits; square-spiral layout; ultracompact waveguide amplifier; Glass; Optical add-drop multiplexers; Optical amplifiers; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical losses; Optical waveguides; Spirals; Stimulated emission; Telecommunication traffic;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
  • Conference_Location
    Anaheim, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-803-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2006.215355
  • Filename
    1636385