Title : 
Phosphate glass ion-exchange Er3+/Yb3+ co-doped waveguide amplifiers longitudinally pumped by broad area lasers
         
        
            Author : 
Donzella, V. ; Toccafondo, V. ; Faralli, S. ; Di Pasquale, F. ; Barbier, D. ; Figueroa, H. Hernandez
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna, Pisa, Italy
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We show that Er3+/Yb3+ co-doped waveguide amplifiers, based on ion-exchange technology on phosphate glasses, can be effectively pumped by high-power and low-cost broad-area lasers at 980 nm, providing over 3 dB/cm gain.
         
        
            Keywords : 
erbium compounds; integrated optics; ion exchange; optical glass; optical pumping; optical waveguides; phosphate glasses; ytterbium compounds; P2O5-ErO-YbO; broad area lasers; co-doped waveguide amplifiers; ion exchange; longitudinal pumping; phosphate glass; Erbium; Glass; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Optical amplifiers; Optical propagation; Optical waveguides; Pump lasers; Refractive index; Waveguide lasers; integrated optics; optical amplifiers;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Photonics in Switching, 2009. PS '09. International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Pisa
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-3857-0
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-3856-3
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/PS.2009.5307801