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Giant optical gain in a single-crystal erbium chloride silicate nanowire
Hao Sun,Leijun Yin,Zhicheng Liu,Yize Zheng,Fan Fan,Shilong Zhao,Xue Feng,Yongzhuo Li,Cun-Zheng Ning,Cun-Zheng Ning +9 more
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In this article, a single-crystal erbium chloride silicate nanowire was used for signal enhancement and transmission experiments on a 1,530-nm single cell.Abstract:
Rare-earth optical materials with large optical gain are of great importance for a wide variety of applications in photonics and quantum information due to their long carrier lifetimes and quantum coherence times, especially in the realization of efficient lasers and amplifiers. Until now, such materials have achieved a gain of less than a few dB cm–1, rendering them unsuitable for applications in nanophotonic integrated circuits. Here, we report the results of the signal enhancement and transmission experiments on a single-crystal erbium chloride silicate nanowire. Our experiments demonstrate that a net material gain over 100 dB cm–1 at wavelengths around 1,530 nm is possible due to the nanowire's single-crystalline material quality and its high erbium concentration. Our results establish that such rare-earth-compound nanowires are a potentially important class of nanomaterials for a variety of applications including, for example, subwavelength-scale optical amplifiers and lasers for integrated nanophotonics, and quantum information. Erbium chloride silicate nanowire promises optical gain for nanophotonic circuits.read more
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Modeling erbium-doped fiber amplifiers
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Erbium-doped integrated waveguide amplifiers and lasers
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Erbium-doped phosphate glass waveguide on silicon with 4.1 dB/cm gain at 1.535 µm
TL;DR: Erbium-doped multicomponent phosphate glass waveguides were deposited by rf sputtering techniques in this paper, and a net optical gain of 4.1 dB at 1.535 μm was achieved.