Erbium doping process in nanostructured silica perform for optical fiber / Dopagem de erbio em preforma de silica nanoestruturada para fibras opticas

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

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A special property of erbium to emit light in the wavelength used for optical communications has aroused great technological interest, particularly for erbium doped fiber and devices. However, the key point of this technology is to get high concentration and homogeneouserbium doping into silica structure. Even now, the doping mechanism of erbium in silica glass is still not well known. A research work to study and to control the nanoporosity in silica glass has presently been developed by using various processing parameters of vapor phase axial deposition technique. Post-deposition heat treatment to control the distribution of nanoporosity has also been applied. Two methods to dope erbium have been developed: (i) immersion of nanostructured silica preform into a solution of erbium chloride and ethanol, and (ii) simultaneousdeposition of silica nanopartic1es and vaporized erbium chloride in Hz/Oz flame. The merit of the first doping methodology was to understand the doping mechanism in nanostructurallevel. And the result of the second technique demonstrated a new procedure to obtain highIy efficient and low cost erbium doped silica preform containing a concentration of few thousands atomic ppm with corresponding photoluminescence response

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optical fibers vapor-phase deposition fibras oticas vapor - deposição erbium erbio

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