• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 12, Issue 5, 1067 (2024)
Xiwen He1、2、†, Deyue Ma1、2、†, Chen Zhou1、3, Mingyue Xiao4, Weibiao Chen1、2, and Zhiping Zhou1、5、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Aerospace Laser Technology and Systems Department, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 2Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 3School of Physical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
  • 4School of Microelectronics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 5State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communications Systems and Networks, School of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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    Xiwen He, Deyue Ma, Chen Zhou, Mingyue Xiao, Weibiao Chen, Zhiping Zhou. On-chip integrated few-mode erbium–ytterbium co-doped waveguide amplifiers[J]. Photonics Research, 2024, 12(5): 1067 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    We propose for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, an on-chip integrated few-mode erbium–ytterbium co-doped waveguide amplifier based on an 800 nm thick Si3N4 platform, which demonstrates high amplification gains and low differential modal gains (DMGs) simultaneously. An eccentric waveguide structure and a co-propagating pumping scheme are adopted to balance the gain of each mode. A hybrid mode/polarization/wavelength-division (de)multiplexer with low insertion loss and crosstalk is used for multiplexing and demultiplexing in two operation wavebands centered at 1550 nm and 980 nm, where the light in these two bands serves as the signal light and pump light of the amplifier, respectively. The results demonstrate that with an input signal power of 0.1 mW, TE0 mode pump power of 300 mW, and TE1 mode pump power of 500 mW, the three signal modes (TE0/TM0/TE1) all exhibit amplification gains exceeding 30 dB, while maintaining a DMG of less than 0.1 dB.
    Γi=j=1NΓjiionsPjpj=1NPjp.

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    Γjiions=Aψis(x,y)gions(x,y)dxdyAψjp(x,y)ψis(x,y)dxdyA[ψjp(x,y)]2dxdyA[ψis(x,y)]2dxdy.

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    Γjions=Aψjp(x,y)gions(x,y)dxdy.

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    [σ12(νs)Ahνsi=1LΓiionsPis(Z)σ13(νp)Ahνpj=1NΓjionsPjp(Z)]N1(Z)+[1τ21+σ21(νs)Ahνsi=1LΓiionsPis(Z)]N2(Z)+C2N22(Z)KtrN1(Z)N2Yb(Z)=0,

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    N1(Z)+N2(Z)=NEr(Z),

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    [σ12Yb(νp)Ahνpj=1NΓjionsPjp(Z)]N1Yb(Z)+[1τ21Yb+σ12Yb(νp)Ahνpi=1NΓjionsPjp(Z)]N2Yb(Z)+KtrN1(Z)N2Yb(Z)=0,

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    N1Yb(Z)+N2Yb(Z)=NYb(Z).

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    dPis(Z)dZ=ΓiPis(Z)[σ21(νs)N2(Z)σ12(νs)N1(Z)]αisPis(Z)lLdil[Pis(Z)Pls(Z)],

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    dPjp(Z)dZ=ΓjionsPjp(Z)[σ13(νp)N1(Z)+σ12Yb(νp)N1Yb(Z)σ21Yb(νp)N2Yb(Z)]αjpPjp(Z)nNdjn[Pjp(Z)Pnp(Z)].

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    Xiwen He, Deyue Ma, Chen Zhou, Mingyue Xiao, Weibiao Chen, Zhiping Zhou. On-chip integrated few-mode erbium–ytterbium co-doped waveguide amplifiers[J]. Photonics Research, 2024, 12(5): 1067
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