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S-Band Polymer Waveguide Amplifier Based on
Thulium Ytterbium Co-Doped Nanocrystals
LIU Tingting, WANG Jiahe, ZHAO Dan, WANG Fei
Journal of Jilin University (Information Science Edition). 2025, 43 (3):
497-503.
S-Band Polymer Waveguide Amplifier Based on
Thulium Ytterbium Co-Doped Nanocrystals LIU Tingting, WANG Jiahe, ZHAO Dan,
WANG Fei (College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University,
Changchun 130012, China) Abstract: In order to solve the problem of
insufficient communication bandwidth caused by the constantly growing network
capacity, expanding the optical communication band from the main C-band (1 530
~1 565 nm) to the S-band (1 460 ~1 530 nm) and L-band (1 565 ~1 630 nm) has
become an effective way to address this issue. Tm3+can emit light at a
wavelength of ~1 490 nm under pump excitation, and doping it into a waveguide
can achieve S-band optical amplifier. The NaYF4 : Tm3+, Yb3+nanocrystals are
introduced into polymer materials as amplifier gain media, a planar waveguide
amplifier structure is designed, and the gain performance of the device is
simulated in the S-band. Four waveguide amplifier samples with different
Yb3+doping concentrations (x=5,10,15,20) are prepared using NaYF4 :1% Tm3+ and
x% Yb3+ nanocrystals, and the device gain performance is tested. The
experimental results show that when the Yb3+doping concentration is 10%, the
gain of the waveguide amplifier is maximum, and the 1 cm long device achieves a
relative gain of 8.2 dB at a pump power of 400 mW. The modeling and simulation
of the Tm3+and Yb3+co doped system proposed in this paper provide theoretical
guidance for the development of high-performance S-band waveguide amplifiers.
Using NaYF4 , the polymer optical waveguide amplifier prepared by Tm3+ and Yb3+
nanocrystals has achieved S-band optical amplification and is expected to be
widely used in optical communication.
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