• DocumentCode
    2070905
  • Title

    Giant gain in a rare-earth-ion-doped waveguide

  • Author

    Geskus, D. ; Aravazhi, S. ; Garcia-Blanco, S.M. ; Pollnau, M.

  • Author_Institution
    Integrated Opt. Microsyst. Group, Univ. of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    22-26 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    1
  • Abstract
    We report the demonstration of an ultra-high modal gain of ~1000 dB/cm in a RE-doped waveguide amplifier, comparable to or even exceeding the modal gain reported for SOAs, thus paving the way for applications of on-chip integrated RE-doped amplifiers.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre amplifiers; rare earth alloys; giant gain; rare-earth-ion-doped waveguide; ultra-high modal gain; waveguide amplifier; Microscopy;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Munich
  • ISSN
    Pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0533-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    Pending
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943145
  • Filename
    5943145
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2070905