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Journal article

Er3+,Yb3+:YVO4 waveguides deposited on amorphous SiO2 by PLD and UVPLD

  • 1. Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 72 Tsarigradsko Chaussee, 1784 Sofia (Bulgaria)
  • 2. Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 'Acad. G. Bonchev' Str., Bl.11, 1113 Sofia (Bulgaria)
  • 3. Institute of Physical Chemistry 'Rostislaw Kaischew', Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 'Acad. G. Bonchev' Str., Bl.11, 1113 Sofia (Bulgaria)

Description

In this work, erbium, and erbium and ytterbium co-doped YVO4 waveguiding thin films were deposited on amorphous SiO2 substrates by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) and ultraviolet-assisted pulsed laser deposition (UVPLD). The influence of the deposition technique on the structure, morphology, and optical properties of the films was investigated. At lower dopant concentrations the films prepared by UVPLD show better crystallinity and optical properties. All the samples show preferred orientation of the (001) zone axes parallel to the substrate surface. The polycrystalline samples show difference in the refractive indexes Δn (Δn = nTE - nTM) for the TE and TM polarizations.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2009.12.069

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.tsf.2009.12.069;
PII
S0040-6090(09)02051-3;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Thin Solid Films
Journal Volume
518
Journal Issue
16
Journal Page Range
p. 4726-4729
ISSN
0040-6090
CODEN
THSFAP

Conference

Title
Synthesis, processing and characterization of nanoscale multi functional oxide films II
Acronym
EMRS 2009 spring meeting Symposium H
Dates
8-12 Jun 2009
Place
Strasbourg (France)

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