Polymer optical fiber amplifier

High-Power Polymer Optical Fiber Amplifiers in the Visible Region... 

T., and Sasaki, K. (1995) Basic performance of an organic dye-doped polymer optical fiber amplifier. Appl. Opt., 34, 988-992. 

High gain and high power organic dye-doped polymer optical fiber amplifiers absorption and emission cross sections and gain characteristics. Jap. Journal of Appl. Phys., 36, 2705-2708. 

Lanthanide complexes, including lanthanide -diketonate complexes, have been often tested as a luminescent materials in polymer optical fiber amplifiers and in plartar optical waveguides. This research has been reviewed by KirriM et al. (2002). 

Initially, interest for NIR emission of lanthanide ions stemmed from the development of optical fibers, lasers and amplifiers for telecommunication (Kido and Okamoto, 2002 Kuriki et al 2002) and there are a wealth of theoretical and technical papers published in this area. Up-conversion processes have also been the subject of intense investigations (Auzel, 2004). These two areas of research and development mostly deal with purely inorganic compounds or, more recently, with luminescent polymers they will not be covered in this chapter, with the exception of the latter, which will be partly described. 

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