Evaluation of losses and group effective refractive index  of Er3+-doped Ti:LiNbO3 optical waveguides
                
                        
                        N. N. PUSCAS1,*
                            
                        
                    
                    Affiliation
                    
                        
                        - University ''Politehnica'' of Bucharest, Physics Department, Romania
 
                        
                    
                     
        
        Abstract
        Based on optical methods in this paper we report some experimental and theoretical results concerning the evaluation of 
losses and group effective refractive index of Er3+:Ti:LiNbO3 optical waveguides from the transmitted intensity of the FabryPérot optical waveguide resonator. Using interferometric methods in order to obtain the resonances (heating the optical 
waveguide cavity with a Peltier element and also varying the frequency of a tunable laser) from the experimental data we 
evaluated the attenuation coefficient for a laser radiation having λ =1.55 μ m and also, from the same spectra the group 
effective refractive index.
        Keywords
        Er3+:Ti:LiNbO3 Optical waveguides, Attenuation coefficient, Group effective refractive index.
        Citation
        N. N. PUSCAS, Evaluation of losses and group effective refractive index  of Er3+-doped Ti:LiNbO3 optical waveguides, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 2, 4, April 2008, pp.193-195 (2008).
        Submitted at: March 24, 2008
 
        Accepted at: April 3, 2008