At&t Bell Laboratories

Albert Polman

Greg E Blonder

John Milo Poate

Dale C Jacobson

Rodney C Kistler

Disclosed is apparatus comprising an optically pumped optical gain device that comprises a rare earth (RE)-doped planar waveguide with non-uniform dopant distribution in the core of the waveguide. The RE ions are advantageously distributed such that the ions are concentrated in a core region in which the mode intensity of both signal radiation and pump radiation is relatively high. In preferred embodiments of a single mode planar waveguide according to the invention the RE ions are substantially concentrated in the central core region. A method of making the disclosed apparatus is also disclosed. The method involves implantation of RE ions into the core region.

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Albert Polman