Novel Tellurite Glasses and Nanocluster Doped Silica for Photonics

Author

Milanese, Daniel ; Chen, Qiuping ; Liao, Guihua ; Xing, Jianjun ; Chiaretta, D. ; Fokine, Michael ; Ferraris, Monica

Author_Institution

Politecnico di Torino- DISMIC, Turin

Volume

2

fYear

2007

fDate

1-5 July 2007

Firstpage

301

Lastpage

304

Abstract

The topic of this review is a summary of the photonics research currently performed at the Material Science and Chemical Engineering Department at Politecnico di Torino, with an emphasis on novel tellurite glasses and nanocluster doped silica for photonics. The fabrication and characterization of novel tellurite glasses and their optical fibers, with the aim of obtaining laser sources operating in the near infrared, will be reviewed. Doping with Tm, Yb and Ho have been investigated and different pumping schemes are evaluated in order to optimize laser performance. Nanocluster doped glasses, which are of great interest for nonlinear applications in telecommunications as well as for different types of plasmonic sensors, will also be discussed. Specifically, the fabrication and characterization of nano-metal glass composites manufacturing by RF sputtering.

Keywords

doping; glass; holmium; light sources; nanocomposites; optical fibre fabrication; optical pumping; research and development; tellurium; thulium; ytterbium; Chemical Engineering Department; Material Science Department; Politecnico di Torino; RF sputtering; nano-metal glass composites; nanocluster doped silica; near infrared light sources; optical fibers; photonics; pumping schemes; tellurite glasses; Chemical engineering; Chemical lasers; Fiber lasers; Glass; Materials science and technology; Optical device fabrication; Optical fibers; Photonics; Pump lasers; Silicon compounds; glasses; nanostructured glasses; non linear optics; rare earth doping; tellurite;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2007. ICTON '07. 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1249-8

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1249-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2007.4296210

Filename

4296210