BASIC PERFORMANCE OF AN ORGANIC DYE-DOPED POLYMER OPTICAL-FIBER AMPLIFIER

Authors
TAGAYA A KOIKE Y NIHEI E TERAMOTO S FUJII K YAMAMOTO T SASAKI K
Citation
A. Tagaya et al., BASIC PERFORMANCE OF AN ORGANIC DYE-DOPED POLYMER OPTICAL-FIBER AMPLIFIER, Applied optics, 34(6), 1995, pp. 988-992
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Applied optics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036935
Volume
34
Issue
6
Year of publication
1995
Pages
988 - 992
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6935(1995)34:6<988:BPOAOD>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
A polymer optical fiber amplifier (POFA) of the graded-index (GI) type , with gain in the visible region, was successfully prepared for the f irst time, to our knowledge, with the interfacial-gel polymerization t echnique. An input signal of 0.85 W at 591 nm was amplified to 420 W ( 27-dB gain) by injection of 690 Tv of pump power at 532 nm into a GI P OFA with a 0.5-m length. The efficiency of conversion of pump energy t o signal amplification was more than 60%.