1. Realizing optical amplifiers with micro-sphere: A 15 dB gain, 2 dB noise-figure, tiny amplifier
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Patrice Feron, Olivier Bouchet, Adrian Mihaescu, Pascal Besnard, N. Traynor, Achille Monteville, Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON (FOTON), Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Rennes (INSA Rennes), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-École Nationale Supérieure des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie (ENSSAT)-Télécom Bretagne-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Orange Labs [Lannion], France Télécom, Plate-Forme d'Etudes et de Recherche sur les Fibres Optiques Spéciales (PERFOS), association PERFOS, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Rennes (INSA Rennes), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), and Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-École Nationale Supérieure des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie (ENSSAT)-Télécom Bretagne
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Physics ,Optical amplifier ,[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-OPTICS]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Optics [physics.optics] ,business.industry ,Amplifier ,Bandwidth (signal processing) ,Optical communication ,02 engineering and technology ,Noise figure ,01 natural sciences ,010309 optics ,020210 optoelectronics & photonics ,Optics ,Q factor ,0103 physical sciences ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Optoelectronics ,Stimulated emission ,business ,Lasing threshold - Abstract
We propose recently in a pan to use these objects as optical amplifiers. This aim requires working in a complete different direction. Firstly it is not suitable to have a good quality factor for the micro-sphere, because we want to avoid the lasing effect and the interferences between the many round-trip fields that will give a severe limitation to the optical bandwidth. Secondly, it could be interesting to have bigger sphere in order to have a higher gain. We present in this communication the fabrication of optical amplifiers [3] using 6000 ppm Er3+ Al-doped silica micro-spheres of diameters ranging from 200 mum to 3 mm. In a first step, 46 samples have been made in order to realize this study.
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- 2007
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