Abstract
We demonstrate the first chalcogenide glass waveguide amplifiers operating at a wavelength of 1.5 μm. The amplifiers, patterned in films of Er3+-doped gallium lanthanum sulfide glass, exhibit a total internal gain of 6.7 dB (2.8 dB/cm).
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