• DocumentCode
    2273741
  • Title

    Erbium-doped zirconia waveguides: transition probabilities

  • Author

    Schermer, R. ; Berglund, W. ; Johnson, J.M. ; Gopinath, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Minnesota Univ., USA
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    24-24 May 2002
  • Firstpage
    526
  • Abstract
    Summary from only given. In this paper lifetimes and quantum efficiencies have been predicted for erbium-doped zirconia glass. These results show that zirconia waveguides should be pumped at 1480 nm for efficient optical amplifiers and lasers.
  • Keywords
    erbium; laser transitions; optical glass; probability; solid lasers; stimulated emission; waveguide lasers; 1480 nm; ZrO/sub 2/:Er; erbium-doped zirconia glass waveguide lasers; lifetimes; optical amplifiers; quantum efficiencies; solid lasers; transition probability lifetimes; zirconia waveguides; Glass; Laser excitation; Laser transitions; Optical amplifiers; Optical pumping; Optical waveguides; Pump lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Waveguide transitions;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the
  • Conference_Location
    Long Beach, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-706-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2002.1034282
  • Filename
    1034282