Erbium-doped planar waveguide

Details Erbium-doped planar waveguide Erbium-doped planar waveguide

1998-03-24

1999-11-09

Sanghavi, Hemang

Optical waveguides

Having particular optical characteristic modifying chemical...

385142, 385129, 372 40, G02B 600

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ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a planar optical waveguide device, especially an optical amplifier, comprising: a substrate (11); an active guiding layer (13) arranged on the substrate (11); a bottom layer (12) arranged between the active guiding layer (13) and the substrate (11); a top cladding layer (14) arranged over the active guiding layer (13).
According to the invention, the active guiding layer (13) has the following composition:

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