Published 2010
| Version v1
Journal article
Rare - earth - doped silicate glass - ceramic thin films for integrated optical devices
Contributors
Others:
- Istituto di Fisica Applicata "Nello Carrara" (IFAC) ; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche [Roma] (CNR)
- Enrico Fermi Center for Study and Research | Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi
- CSMFO group ; CNR Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie [Trento] (IFN) ; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche [Roma] (CNR)-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche [Roma] (CNR)
- Fondazione Bruno Kessler [Trento, Italy] (FBK)
- Laboratoire de physique de la matière condensée (LPMC) ; Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS) ; COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Dipartimento di Fisica [Povo] ; Università degli Studi di Trento (UNITN)
- School of Physics ; University of Hyderabad
- Laboratoire Avancé de Spectroscopie pour les Intéractions la Réactivité et l'Environnement - UMR 8516 (LASIRE) ; Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Lasers et Applications (CERLA) ; Université de Lille, Sciences et Technologies
Description
The possibility to confine the light in optical planar structures represented the milestone for the development of integrated optical devices in different application areas, such as communications and sensing. In particular, rare-earth (RE) doped planar waveguides demonstrated to be an interesting solution in the realization of integrated optical lasers and amplifiers suitable for the generation/regeneration of the signal in metropolitan and local area networks. Nowadays, although these devices are commercially available, the major contribution of the research consists in discovering and developing better combinations of materials and fabrication processes, in order to reduce the costs and increase the performance of the aforesaid devices. In this context glass-ceramic waveguides, activated by RE ions, seem to fully respond to these requests. The aim of this paper is to offer a comprehensive review on the main results obtained in our Labs in the field of glassceramics. Fabrication and characterization of different silicate glass-ceramic thin films, doped with different percentages of RE ions, will be presented and discussed. The interesting results obtained make these systems quite promising for development of high performance integrated optical amplifiers and lasers.
Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00596058
- URN
- urn:oai:HAL:hal-00596058v1
Origin repository
- Origin repository
- UNICA