ISSN:
1573-4846
Keywords:
sol-gel
;
neodymium and erbium doped planar waveguide
;
fluorescence lifetime measurement
;
phosphorous and aluminium codoping
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Abstract A multilayer sol-gel process has been developed in order to make highly doped rare-earth planar waveguides on silica or silicon substrates. Starting with a small range of constituents, such as SiO2, TiO2, P2O5 and Al2O3, we show that a large variety of gel compositions, with different spectroscopic behaviour, can be made when doped with rare-earths. We have doped the sol-gel films with neodymium and we have optimized their compositions by measuring the neodymium fluorescence lifetime. For a composition with 10 atom% of phosphorous, the lifetime evolution with neodymium concentration was studied and a quenching concentration was found at 1% of neodymium. We have also shown the strong influence of phosphorous or aluminium in the sol composition on the fluorescence lifetime, for a given neodymium concentration. First results on similar planar waveguides, doped with erbium, are also presented. The stability of the fluorescence lifetime over a long period of time is an other important point to be checked for these new materials: the lifetime evolution over a 9 months measurement period is presented.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1018374005608
