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Fabrication of Er Doped Glass Films as Used in Planar Optical Waveguides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

J. V. Gates ,
A. J. Bruce ,
J. Shmulovich ,
Y. H. Wong ,
G. Nykolak ,
M. R. X. Barros  and
R. Ghosh
J. V. Gates
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974.
A. J. Bruce
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974.
J. Shmulovich
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974.
Y. H. Wong
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974.
G. Nykolak
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974.
M. R. X. Barros
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974.
R. Ghosh
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974.
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Abstract

Silica integrated optical circuits are expanding in functionality to include optically active waveguides. Traditionally, the planar optical waveguide structures include silica based glass films such as thermal oxides, phosphorous, and boron-phosphorous doped glasses. Various efforts have successfully doped conventional waveguides with Er, typically by solution doping. Material issues such as rare earth solubility and glass structure dictate that efficient optical amplifiers based on such waveguides have path lengths in excess of 10–15 cm. We have developed an alternative strategy using Er-doped soda-lime silicate glass films on silicon. The waveguide processing utilizes methods of deposition similar to those used in silicon IC technology, with modificatons in the compositions and thicknesses. In these glasses the effective solubility limits are relaxed and we have successfully fabricated short path length devices which demonstrate net gain of more than 4 dB/cm. Short path length devices offer a potential advantage in highly integrated multi-channel devices and offer an additional building block in system architectures.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 392: Symposium U – Thin Films for Integrated Optics Applications , 1995 , 209
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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