Artigo de peri??dico
Improving performance in ytterbium-erbium doped waveguide amplifiers through scattering by large silicon nanostructures
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10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.04.141
0000-0002-9379-9530
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Autor
WETTER, NIKLAUS U.
SILVA, DIEGO S. da
KASSAB, LUCIANA R.P.
JIMENEZ-VILLAR, ERNESTO
Resumen
Optical waveguide amplifiers have seen a growing interest in the last years due to their applications in
telecommunication. This paper reports a notable increase of the relative gain of Yb3??/Er3?? codoped Bi2O3
eGeO2 waveguides by introducing disorder in the form of silicon nanostructure as scattering centers. A
photoluminescence enhancement of about 10 times for the 520 nm and 1530 nm emission bands is
observed in the waveguides when the silicon nanostructures are introduced. Increase of the Yb3??/Er3??
effective absorption, due to the scattering provided by the silicon nanostructures, and decrease of [Bi??],
caused by the introduction of silicon, are proposed as likely causes for the luminescence and gain
enhancement. The pedestal waveguides were fabricated by RF-sputtering followed by optical lithography
and reactive ion etching. RF-sputtering of silicon together with Yb/Er and Bi2O3eGeO2 glass, followed by
heat treatment, produced Yb3??/Er3?? codoped Bi2O3eGeO2 waveguides with silicon nanostructures of size
25e30 nm. The resulting relative gain reached 5.5 dB/cm at 1542 nm representing an enhancement of
50% with respect to waveguides without silicon nanostructures. This strategy of introducing appropriate
disorder may open an avenue for designing and manufacture of novel photonic devices in this emerging
field of integrated optics. Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient??fico e Tecnol??gico (CNPq) Funda????o de Amparo ?? Pesquisa do Estado de S??o Paulo (FAPESP) CNPq: 465763/2014 FAPESP: 17/05854-9; 13/26113-6