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Rare-earth doped glass waveguides for visible, near-IR and mid-IR lasers and amplifiers

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The paper explains the significance of rare-earth (RE) ion-glass host interaction for engineering waveguide devices, which can potentially bring together short fibre or planar waveguides with a single pump source and filters together for designing a fully integrated photonic structure. In this paper we review and exemplify new results in the light of the ion-host interactions in Sm3+-, Er3+-, Tm3+- and Ho3+-doped tellurium and fluorosilicate oxide hosts for photoluminescence analysis at visible, near-IR, and mid-IR wavelengths. The emphasis in this paper is to exploit currently available fibre-pigtailed 980 nm and multimode high-wattage 800 nm pumps for both up and down conversion schemes. Potential applications of these integrated devices are also explained.

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The authors acknowledge the financial support from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council for the Platform Grant (GR/T19889/01), the Multi-core fibre (EP/C515226/01) and broadband amplifiers (GR/R31454/01) projects.

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    Animesh Jha, Shaoxiong Shen, Lihui Huang, Billy Richards & Joris Lousteau

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Jha, A., Shen, S., Huang, L. et al. Rare-earth doped glass waveguides for visible, near-IR and mid-IR lasers and amplifiers. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 18 (Suppl 1), 315–320 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-007-9213-9

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