Optical gain at 650 nm from a polymer waveguide with dye-doped cladding

Reilly, M. A.; Coleman, Bernard D.; Pun, Edwin Yue-Bun; Penty, R.V.; White, I.H.; Ramón, Miguel Calvo; Xia, Ruidong; Bradley, Donal D. C.

doi:10.1063/1.2140074

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“…Another waveguide amplifier source with rib geometry reported, consisted of a 15-mm-long SU8 rib structure with a 7 × 100 μm 2 cross-section, covered by a Rhodamine-640 doped PMMA layer. The pump light was launched in the SU8 waveguides and was evanescently coupled into the active polymer cladding layer where it was amplified, providing a gain of 14 dB and a minimum SNR of around 2 dB [134].…”

Section: Dye-doped Polymer Amplifiersmentioning

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Organic solid‐state integrated amplifiers and lasers

Grivas

Pollnau

2012

Laser & Photonics Reviews

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Solid-state organic amplifiers and lasers are attractive for hybrid integration due to their compatibility with different material platforms, straightforward processing, and possibility to optimize easily their optical and electronic properties by molecular engineering. Advances in the gain medium design and synthesis in combination with new resonator architectures led to tremendous improvements in temporal and spectral properties, lifetime stability, gains produced and operating threshold powers, which triggered interest in their use for a broad range of integrated photonic applications. In this contribution, the current state-of-the-art in the field of organic solid-state amplifiers and lasers is reviewed from the aspects of fabrication technology, gain materials, and device performance. Furthermore, examples of the progress of this technology from a laboratory curiosity to one that demonstrates practical integrated photonic applications are highlighted. An outlook is also provided on research areas and applications that are likely to shape further developments of this technology. (Figure reprinted from [296],

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Section: Dye-doped Polymer Amplifiersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Organic solid‐state integrated amplifiers and lasers

Grivas

Pollnau

2012

Laser & Photonics Reviews

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“…However, the attenuation of the guided fluorescence is very high when laser-dye is doped into the core. It was reported that a polymer waveguide with Rh640doped cladding was utilized for optical signal amplification at 650 nm [6]. In our work, for the first time to our knowledge, Rh640 was doped into the cladding of a polymer optical fiber only and not into the core.…”

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Side-Illumination Fluorescence Dye-Doped-Clad PMMA-Core Polymer Optical Fiber: Potential Intrinsic Light Source for Biosensing

Pun

Liu

Tse

et al. 2012

IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.

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A specially designed laser-dye-doped polymer optical fiber (POF) was drawn and investigated experimentally. The cladding of the POF was doped with Rhodamine 640 and pumped with a compact and low-cost 532-nm diode-pumped solid-state laser. By using the side-illumination fluorescence technique, any section along the POF can act as an intrinsic light source. The fluorescence power of the dye-doped POF under side-illumination was improved by more than 10 times by a bending method. With this enhancement, the issue of coupling light into the POF becomes simpler, cheaper, and more consistent, constructing a practical platform for a sensing system. Index Terms-All-polymer device, fiber design, laser dye, side-illumination.

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“…A micro structured POF fiber based amplifier with a high gain of 30 dB has been repOrted by Argyros et al [171. Reilly et al have achieved a gain of 14 dB in a polymer waveguide with dye doped cladding [18]. A rare earth doped POF is also a potential candidate for the development of optical amplifiers [19].…”

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Fabrication and characterization of dye mixture doped polymer optical fiber as a broad wavelength optical amplifier

Sheeba

Rajesh²,

Nampoori

et al. 2008

Appl. Opt.

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Rhodamine 6G and Rhodamine B dye mixture doped polymer optical fiber amplifier (POFA), which can operate in a broad wavelength region (60nm), has been successfully fabricated and tested. Tunable 0p-eration of the amplifier over a broad wavelength region is achieved by mixing different ratios of the dyes. The dye doped POFA is pumped axially using 532nm, IOns laser pulses from a frequency doubled Q·switched Nd: YAG laser and the signals are taken from an optical parametric oscillator. A maximum gain of 22.3 dB at 617 nm wavelength has been obtained for a 7 cm long dye mixture doped POFA. The effects of pump energy and length of the fiber on the performance of the fiber amplifier are also studied. There exists an optimum length for which the amplifier gain is at a maximum value. C

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Optical gain at 650 nm from a polymer waveguide with dye-doped cladding

Cited by 44 publications

References 15 publications

Organic solid‐state integrated amplifiers and lasers

Organic solid‐state integrated amplifiers and lasers

Side-Illumination Fluorescence Dye-Doped-Clad PMMA-Core Polymer Optical Fiber: Potential Intrinsic Light Source for Biosensing

Fabrication and characterization of dye mixture doped polymer optical fiber as a broad wavelength optical amplifier

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