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
         
        
        
        
            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;
         
        
        
        
            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
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/OFC.2006.215355