抽运光与信号光的光强重叠因子和掺铒玻璃波导放大器的增益特性

在掺铒玻璃波导放大器（EDWA）的三能级速率-传输方程中，考虑两次离子交换工艺中波导掩模窗口宽度w不同所导致的抽运光、信号光模场与光强分布的不同，讨论不同w对EDWA增益特性的影响，得到光强分布的数值解.引入描述波导中抽运光和信号光的归一化光强重叠因子，对EDWA的传统近似解提出修正，得到了修正解，使其更加接近光强分布的数值解.模拟结果表明，在条波导长度为4 cm、抽运光波长为980 nm、功率为80 mW、信号光波长为1534 nm、功率为-10 dBm条件下，不同w所导致EDWA的增益差别可达297 dB.修正解的结果比传统近似解更加接近光强分布的数值解.修正解对于EDWA的理论研究、器件设计具有指导作用. 关键词： 集成光学 掺铒玻璃波导放大器 重叠积分因子 增益

Overlap factor between intensity profiles of signal and pump light and gain characteristics of Er-doped waveguide amplifier

The model used for analyzing the gain characteristics of Er doped waveguide amplifier （EDWA） is based on the rate propagation equations with intensity profiles of pump and signal light. The intensity profiles of pump and signal light for different channel opening width （DCOW） of Er doped waveguide is discussed. And the numerical method （NM） considering the difference of intensity profiles between signal and pump light in channel waveguide with DCOW is used to solve the gain characteristics of signal light in EDWA. An overlap factor Γ_sp between light intensity profiles of signal and pump is introduced to modify the conventional simplified method （CSM） in EDWA, which is a revised version of the conventional simplified method （RCSM）. Results show that difference of 297 dB in gain for -10 dBm signal light at 1534 nm due to DCOW of waveguides is obtained for a 4 cm long waveguide amplifier pumped by 80 mw at 980 nm. Comparing with CSM, the gain characteristics of EDWA from RCSM is simpler and better approaches the result from NM. Therefore, the RCSM is valuable in the research of EDWA.