Semiconductor quantum dots fiber amplifier excited by evanescent wave

Lungang Liu; Fufei Pang; Hairun Guo; Zhenyi Chen; Tingyun Wang

doi:10.1117/12.871727

17 November 2010 Semiconductor quantum dots fiber amplifier excited by evanescent wave

Lungang Liu, Fufei Pang, Hairun Guo, Zhenyi Chen, Tingyun Wang

Proceedings Volume 7847, Optoelectronic Devices and Integration III; 78472Z (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.871727
Event: Photonics Asia 2010, 2010, Beijing, China

Abstract

Based on semiconductor quantum dots and a tapered optical fiber, an optical fiber amplifier was proposed and studied in this paper. It was fabricated by coating PbS quantum dots doped sol-gel onto the tapered region of optical fiber. The PbS quantum dots were synthesized by colloidal method. The tapered optical fiber was made by using a standard single mode fiber through heating of CO₂ laser. With a Wavelength Division Multiplexer (WDM), a signal and a pump can be injected into the fiber tapered region and interacts with the quantum dots through the evanescent field so that the signal can be amplified. The optical gain was characterized and more than 10dB gain was obtained at 1310nm with only 1.6cm interacting length at 130mw pump power.

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Lungang Liu, Fufei Pang, Hairun Guo, Zhenyi Chen, and Tingyun Wang "Semiconductor quantum dots fiber amplifier excited by evanescent wave", Proc. SPIE 7847, Optoelectronic Devices and Integration III, 78472Z (17 November 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.871727

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