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Exciting Erbium-Doped Planar Optical Amplifier Materials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

A. Polman*
Affiliation:
FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics Kruislaan 407, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Abstract

Erbium-doped planar optical amplifiers can find numerous applications in photonic integrated circuits operating at 1.5 μm. The challenge is to fabricate these devices with high gain, operating at low pump power, and having small overall size. In this paper a review is given of our recent work in the area of Er-doped waveguide materials and amplifiers based on three materials classes: oxide films (A12O3, Y2O3, SiO2), polymers, and silicon.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2000

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