Photon-X, Inc.

University of Pennsylvania

Anna Panackal

Anthony F Garito

Robert Andrew Norwood

Renyuan Gao

Shinji Yamada

In accordance with the invention, the present invention provides for a polymer comprised of a general composition. The polymer has a first rare earth element, a second rare earth element, one of the elements of Group VI , one of the elements of Group V , a first fully halogenated organic group, a second fully halogenated organic group. A method of manufacturing the polymer is also disclosed.

Codopant polymers for efficient optical amplification

Disclosed are cost-effective, compact, optically pumped, high gain, rare earth polymer materials such as, erbium (Er,) perfluoro polymers, optical fibers made from the materials and waveguide amplifiers made from the materials having low-loss at telecommunications wavelengths for operation in communications network systems. The polymer amplifier is based on the use of novel high performance rare earth (RE) polymer materials. The new discovered highly transparent RE polymer materials are directly synthesized at high RE ion concentrations (&tilde;10,10,rare earth ion/cm,&tilde;10% wt) with each metal ion encapsulated and physically buffered by insulating, covalently bonded, perfluorinated phosphate ligands that then form the high temperature stable, polymer backbone matrix. This is distinctly different from widely studied inorganic glasses and single crystals where RE ion salts are doped directly into the host but only to relatively low levels (<0.1% wt).

Rare earth polymers, optical amplifiers and optical fibers

Devices and materials containing certain stable, polycyclic aromatic compounds exhibit sensible, second order nonlinear optical effects. In general, useful polycyclic aromatic compounds possess electron-donating and electron-withdrawing chemical functionality but no center of inversion symmetry on either the molecular or crystalline unit cell level.

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