Rare-earth-doped fluoride-glass channel waveguides for optical amplification

Jean-Luc Adam; Eric Lebrasseur; Brigitte Boulard; Bernard Jacquier; Gilles Fonteneau; Youping Gao; R. Sramek; C. Legein; Stephan Guy

doi:10.1117/12.382850

13 April 2000 Rare-earth-doped fluoride-glass channel waveguides for optical amplification

Jean-Luc Adam, Eric Lebrasseur, Brigitte Boulard, Bernard Jacquier, Gilles Fonteneau, Youping Gao, R. Sramek, C. Legein, Stephan Guy

Author Affiliations +

Proceedings Volume 3942, Rare-Earth-Doped Materials and Devices IV; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.382850
Event: Symposium on Integrated Optoelectronics, 2000, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

This paper focuses on the preparation and optical characterization of rare-earth-doped fluoride glass channel waveguides. Fluoride glasses are materials with unique optical properties. Because of low phonon energies of the host, emissions of rare-earth ions show higher quantum efficiencies in fluoride glasses as compared to silicates. Waveguides can be prepared by two methods. First, fluorine-- chlorine anionic exchange at the surface of fluorozirconate glass, which results in gradient-index waveguides. Second, physical vapor deposition of Pb-Zn-Ga fluoride glass, which allows the preparation of step-index waveguides. Both systems can be doped with rare-earth ions. The spectroscopy of Nd³⁺ and Er³⁺ ions in both waveguide configurations is investigated and the most recent results on optical amplification around 1.05 micrometers and 1.54 micrometers are presented.

Citation Download Citation

Jean-Luc Adam, Eric Lebrasseur, Brigitte Boulard, Bernard Jacquier, Gilles Fonteneau, Youping Gao, R. Sramek, C. Legein, and Stephan Guy "Rare-earth-doped fluoride-glass channel waveguides for optical amplification", Proc. SPIE 3942, Rare-Earth-Doped Materials and Devices IV, (13 April 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.382850

ACCESS THE FULL ARTICLE

INSTITUTIONAL
Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.

SELECT YOUR INSTITUTION

PERSONAL
Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.

PERSONAL SIGN IN

No SPIE Account? Create one

PURCHASE THIS CONTENT

SUBSCRIBE TO DIGITAL LIBRARY

50 downloads per 1-year subscription

Members: $195

Non-members: $335 ADD TO CART

25 downloads per 1 - year subscription

Members: $145

Non-members: $250 ADD TO CART

PURCHASE SINGLE ARTICLE

Includes PDF, HTML & Video, when available