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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 1994
Filed:
Jun. 18, 1993
Masahi Onishi, Yokohama, JP;
Koji Nakazato, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroo Kanamori, Yokohama, JP;
Minoru Watanabe, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshiaki Miyajima, Mito, JP;
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An optical functioning glass for enabling optical amplification at 1.3-.mu.m wavelength band or increasing efficiency of the amplification is disclosed. The optical functioning glass contains Nd.sup.3+ as an active material and uranium, both of which are doped in a multi-component function glass serving as a host glass. Since uranium is doped in the optical functioning glass, light emission of Nd.sup.3+ in the 1.06-.mu.m wavelength band can be absorbed by uranium. A decrease in efficiency of induced emission in a 1.3-.mu.m wavelength band can be prevented, and an optical functioning glass suitable for optical amplification in the 1.3-.mu.m wavelength band can be obtained. When a fiber is formed using the optical functioning glass as a core, a low-threshold, high-gain fiber amplifier, fiber laser, and the like can be obtained.