Glass optical waveguides: a review of fabrication techniques

GC Righini, A Chiappini - Optical Engineering, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Glasses, either pure or suitably doped, constitute an excellent material for the development
of integrated optical circuits. A brief review is presented of the most widely used processes …

On-chip waveguide amplifiers for multi-band optical communications: a review and challenge

Z Chen, L Wan, S Gao, K Zhu, M Zhang, Y Li… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Erbium (Er)-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) has achieved great success in modern optical
communications for decades due to its outstanding gain performance in C-band. Nowadays …

Progress in rare-earth-doped mid-infrared fiber lasers

AB Seddon, Z Tang, D Furniss, S Sujecki… - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
The progress, and current challenges, in fabricating rare-earth-doped chalcogenide-glass
fibers for develo** mid-infrared (IR) fiber lasers are reviewed. For the first time a coherent …

Chalcogenide glass-fiber-based mid-IR sources and applications

JS Sanghera, LB Shaw… - IEEE Journal of selected …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is develo** chalcogenide glass fibers for
applications in the mid-and long-wave IR wavelength regions from 2 to 12 μ m. The …

[HTML][HTML] Infrared luminescence of chalcogenide glasses doped with rare earth ions and their potential applications

V Nazabal, JL Adam - Optical Materials: X, 2022 - Elsevier
This article deals with sulfur and selenium-based glasses doped with rare earth ions. It
reviews the most significant glass compositions and their related thermal and mechanical …

Low-loss titanium dioxide waveguides and resonators using a dielectric lift-off fabrication process

CC Evans, C Liu, J Suntivich - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We present a bi-layer lift-off fabrication approach to create low-loss amorphous titanium
dioxide (TiO_2) integrated optical waveguides and resonators for visible and near-infrared …

Si-CMOS-compatible lift-off fabrication of low-loss planar chalcogenide waveguides

J Hu, V Tarasov, N Carlie, NN Feng, L Petit… - Optics …, 2007 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate, for the first time to the best of our knowledge, low-loss, Si-CMOS-
compatible fabrication of single-mode chalcogenide strip waveguides. As a novel route of …

Recent progress in chalcogenide fiber technology at NRL

WH Kim, VQ Nguyen, LB Shaw, LE Busse… - Journal of Non …, 2016 - Elsevier
The chalcogen glasses (ie, glasses based on the elements S, Se, and Te) are transparent in
the infrared (IR), possess low phonon energies, are chemically durable, and can be drawn …

Erbium-doped Ga2O3 waveguide for optical amplification

R Liu, Z Zhang, Z Yang, W Wang, K Yan… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We prepared an Er 3+-doped gallium oxide amorphous film using a radio frequency
magnetron sputtering method and fabricated the waveguide using ultraviolet lithography …

Chalcogenide glasses for infrared photonics

JL Adam, L Calvez, J Trolès… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The last advances in the synthesis and sha** techniques of chalcogenide glasses
suitable for infrared photonics are reported. Ball milling combined with spark plasma …