Modeling, analysis, design, and optimization of tightly packed erbium-doped waveguide amplifiers

Irene Mozjerin; Shlomo Ruschin; Amos Hardy

doi:10.1117/12.588701

28 April 2005 Modeling, analysis, design, and optimization of tightly packed erbium-doped waveguide amplifiers

Irene Mozjerin, Shlomo Ruschin, Amos Hardy

Proceedings Volume 5722, Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices XIII; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.588701
Event: Integrated Optoelectronic Devices 2005, 2005, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

The design of compact spiral erbium-doped waveguide amplifiers (EDWAs) is considered under two constraints. The first one is the minimization of the chip area required for obtaining a predetermined gain, and the second one the maximization of the gain available from a limited area. It is shown that considerable benefit in gain and compactness of spiral EDWAs can be achieved by allowing tight bends with relatively high bend-induced losses. The effect of amplified spontaneous emission along with gain degradation on the noise figure in compact spiral EDWAs is analyzed. It is found that the dependence of the optimized limited area EDWA noise figure on the chip area attains a maximum at some definite area value. It is also found that there is a range of area values, where the optimized limited area EDWA noise figure is subjected to pronounced changes under small variations of the chip area. The study is based on a modified rate-propagation equation model that takes into account bend-induced losses in curved waveguides with varying radius of curvature. Numerical calculations based on actual waveguide parameters show the possibility of fabricating high gain, small size EDWAs.

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Irene Mozjerin, Shlomo Ruschin, and Amos Hardy "Modeling, analysis, design, and optimization of tightly packed erbium-doped waveguide amplifiers", Proc. SPIE 5722, Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices XIII, (28 April 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.588701

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