Realizing optical amplifiers with micro-sphere: A 15 dB gain, 2 dB noise-figure, tiny amplifier

Adrian Mihaescu (1) , Pascal Besnard (1) , Patrice Feron (1) , O. Bouchet (2) , Nicholas Traynor (3) , Achille Monteville (3)

1 FOTON - Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON
2 Orange Labs [Lannion]
3 PERFOS - Plate-Forme d'Etudes et de Recherche sur les Fibres Optiques Spéciales

600 ppm Er3+ Al-doped silica micro-spheres are fabricated in order to realize optical amplifiers. We demonstrate that it is possible to obtain component showing 15 dB gain with 2 dB noise figure.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Adrian Mihaescu, Pascal Besnard, Patrice Feron, O. Bouchet, Nicholas Traynor, et al.. Realizing optical amplifiers with micro-sphere: A 15 dB gain, 2 dB noise-figure, tiny amplifier. Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics / International Quantum Electronics Conference 2007 (CLEO-Europe/IQEC 2007), Jun 2007, Munich, Germany. pp.1, ⟨10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386532⟩. ⟨hal-00265336⟩