FR2837290A1 - Ultra-compact optical amplifier used in telecommunications comprises housing containing an optical pump, a light amplification and guiding unit, passive optical coupling elements, and light guides - Google Patents

Abstract

The ultra-compact optical amplifier comprises a housing (15) containing an optical pump (3), a light amplification and guiding unit (4), first passive optical coupling elements (6, 7, 9, 10), a first guide for light to be amplified (8), second passive optical coupling elements (12-14), and a second light guide (11) for amplified light. The light amplification and guiding unit (4) receives and guides the energy from the optical pump (3) and the light to be amplified. The first passive optical coupling elements (6, 7, 9, 10) receive the light to be amplified from a first light guide (8) and pass it on to the light amplifier (4). The second passive optical coupling elements (12-14) collect the amplified light and deliver it to a second light guide (11). At least one of the optical pump (3), the light amplification and guiding unit (4), the first passive optical coupling elements (6, 7, 9, 10) and the second passive optical coupling elements (12-14) are implanted on a substrate (2). The light amplification and guiding unit (4) comprises a material selected from glass and its derivatives, and polymers. The material is doped with a rare earth ion or complex, or is doped with a metallic ion, especially chromium, or comprises doped nanoparticles. The light amplification and guiding unit (4) comprises an optical fiber installed in a rectilinear or U-shaped form, or in the form of a multi-wound loop. The first and second passive optical coupling elements (6, 7, 9, 10, 12-14) are selected from a group comprising at least micro-mirrors, micro-lenses, isolators, pumping signal wavelength multiplexers, static or variable equalizing filters, static or variable attenuators, or rejection filters. The housing (15) also includes an auxiliary regulation and/or monitoring and/or control element selected from coupling and/or filtering and/or channel multiplexing and/or demultiplexing elements. A gain equalizing filter is produced on at least one surface of the first and second passive optical elements (6, 7, 9, 10, 12-14)) and the auxiliary elements, and on at least one of the inlet and outlet faces of the light amplification and guiding unit (4). The device can consists of several optical pumps (3), several light amplification and guiding units (4), several first (6, 7, 9, 10) and second (12-14) passive optical elements and/or several auxiliary elements accommodated in the housing (15). An Independent claim is given for utilization of the device in telecommunications.

Description

Optical connector includes an SC, LC or MU connector.

  ULTRA-COMPACT OPTICAL AMPLIFICATION DEVICE

  The invention concerns the field of optical devices, and more particularly that of optical amplification devices comprising an amplification medium also ensuring the guidance of the optical signal.

  amplify and pump energy.

  Most optical amplification devices, of the precise type, consist of an assembly of optical pumping elements and passive optical elements, performing an optical coupling between light guiding means, such as optical fibers. power supply and collection, and light amplification and guiding means, such as doped optical fibers or waveguides, or between the pumping elements and

  the amplification and guidance means.

  Each of these elements having its own packaging (or a package >>) or, in the case of optical fibers, a primer (or "pigtail"),

  The final encumbrance of the device is therefore important and its high cost.

  Several solutions have been recently proposed to try to improve the situation. Thus, it has been proposed to reduce the dimensions of the different elements, or to reduce their number, or to reinforce the adjustment of the packages (in particular by reducing the radii of curvature of the fibers), or to combine several passive optical elements. in the same package. But these solutions are limited for theoretical reasons. It has also been proposed to use other technologies, such as multi-mode, double-pumping and multi-mode pumping fibers, or side and multi-mode bulk pumping amplifiers. But these solutions

  have similar limitations to the previous ones.

  Consequently, no device provides complete satisfaction in

  compacite eVou matter of manufacturing cost.

  The object of the invention is therefore to remedy all or part of the

aforementioned drawbacks.

  For this purpose, Wile proposes an optical amplification device in which the optical elements passHs and the optical pumping means do not present a package or a primer. More specifically, the device according to the invention comprises a box in which wind logbs i) optical pumping means delivering the pumping energy necessary for amplification ii) means for amplifying and guiding light that can receive and guide the pumping energy and the light to amplify and deliver the amplified light, iii) the first passive optical coupling elements (by

  example of eVou isolators wavelength multiplexors pump-

  signal eVou static or variable equalizing filters and / or static or variable attenuators and / or rejector filters eVou microlenses) for receiving the light to be amplified from first guide means (for example an optical fiber input) and supplying the amplification and guidance means with this light to be amplified, and iv) second passive optical coupling elements (for example eVou insulators or wavelength signaling multiplexers eVou static or variable equalizing filters and / or static or variable attenuators and / or rejector filters eVou microlenses) for collecting the light amplified by the amplification and guidance means, in the presence of the pumping energy, to deliver it to second guide means light (by

  For example, an output optical fiber).

  The term "passive optical coupling elements" here means a set of optical elements including the passive elements necessary for amplification, such as, for example, those providing the isolation function and / or the multiplexing function. It may be a micro-lens, eVou a mirror microphone, possibly selective in wavelength, eVou an insulator, in particular. The amplification and guidance means may be presented in different forms. Preferentially, they comprise an optical amplification and guidance fiber, for example installed in a substantially rectilinear position or in the form of a U >> or in the form

  of a winding constitutes at least one loop.

  The pumping means eVou the means of amplification and

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  eVou guidance the first passive optical elements eVou passive second optical elements can be implanted or integrated, totally or partially, on a substrate. This can be either the wall that defines the bottom of the

  box, an item brought on the bottom of the box.

  The box may comprise a partition defining first and second zones in which respectively wind the pumping means and the first and second passive optical elements, or the means

amplification and guidance.

  It is also possible to provide one or more receptacles, such as "bumps", for housing at least a portion of the first eVou second passive optical elements, these receptacles passing through a wall of the housing.

eVou the partition wall.

  In addition, these amplification and handling means preferably comprise a material chosen from a group comprising glasses and their derivatives (for example tellurite glasses, phosphate-based glasses, silica-based glasses). , bismuth-based glasses, alumino-silicate glasses, borate glasses, alumina glasses, soda lime silica glasses or Germanate glasses, possibly doped with chemical species such as alkaline ions having in particular the effect of create rare earth ion acceptor sites) and polymers (such as PMMA or other organic materials well known to the ad man). More preferably, this material is doped with an ion or a complex of rare earth, such as for example erbium, thulium, neodymium, praseodyme or dysprosium, or with a metal ion, such as for example chromium, optionally codope with an ion increasing the effective absorption section, such as ytterbium, eVou with one or more alkaline elements. Alternatively, the material may comprise preferentially doped nanoparticles, in the amorphous or crystalline phase (nano-crystals or vitro-ceramics), of the type of the materials presented above, and dispersed in a host material (such as glass silica or one of the other materials presented above). These nanoparticles have dimensions

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  characteristics preferentially below the micron, and more

  preferentially still below 10 nanometers.

  One or more gain equalizing filters may be incorporated into the box, especially for optimum "WDM" (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) operation. They wind preferentially realized in the form

  stacks of thin layers deposited on at least one optical element.

  Said optical elements may be elements dedicated to the gain equalization function and preferably to the components previously mentioned of a device. In a preferred embodiment, a filter is deposited on at least one of the input and output facets of the means.

amplification and guidance.

  On the other hand, at least some constituents of the device can be

  implants or integres, partially or totally, in the substrate.

  The word "substrate" must here be included in a broad definition, that is to say, in that means of support. It may consist of a single layer of material, such as silicon or silica, or of several layers, possibly epitaxial and some of whose portions (for example made by lithography eVou etching) have dimensions and dimensions.

  compositions adapted to guide light eVou its amplification.

  But, as indicated above, the substrate may be the bottom of the box.

  The substrate may therefore comprise, in selected locations, one or more housings of appropriate size to receive at least some of the constituents of the device. Alternatively or in addition, it is also possible to provide on the upper face of the substrate one or more protruding portions forming a protractor (s) and / or destinee (s) to receive, wedge or center

  at least part of at least one of the means or elements of the device.

  The box may furthermore comprise auxiliary elements, in particular control elements eVou of control eVou of control eVou of eVou coupling of eVou of multiplexing eVou of

  demultiplexing eVou switching, assets or liabilities.

  The device according to the invention is particularly adapted, although non-exclusively, to amplification in the field of telecommunications. Other features and advantages of the invention will be apparent in

  examination of the detailed description below and the accompanying drawings on

  which: - Figure 1 illustrates schematically a first embodiment of an optical amplification device according to the invention; FIG. 2 schematically illustrates a second embodiment of an optical amplification device according to the invention; FIG. 3 schematically illustrates a third embodiment of an optical amplification device according to the invention; and FIG. 4 illustrates in a diagrammatic way a quatribe embodiment

  an optical amplification device according to the invention.

  The attached drawings are, for the most part, of certain character. Consequently, they may not only serve to complete the invention but

  also contribute to its definition, as appropriate.

  Referring first to Figure 1 to describe a first embodiment of amplification device according to the invention. In this example, all the elements constitute the wind device installed on the "upper" face 1 of a single-layer substrate 2 produced, for example, from silicon or silica. Alternatively, the substrate could be multilayer type, the base layer being for example silicon. The substrate 1 is reported on the

  inner face of a wall (not shown) defining the bottom of a box 15.

  The substrate may include pins (or projections) for centering or tampering, for example, with the help of a technique such as the

  FHD (Flame Hydrolysis Deposition), or in SiON.

  Generally speaking, the composition of the substrate 2 is chosen according to the elements it is intended to receive (and / or to integrate), and in particular the functions that they must perform, and / or the environment in which they are used. which the final amplification device must be integrated. But the substrate can also be chosen according to its low cost. For this purpose, we will

use an AlN substrate.

  For applications in which positioning tolerances

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  Because of the critical temperature and the temperature which can vary, preference is given to materials having a low coefficient of thermal expansion, such as for example COVAR or INVAR. Furthermore, for applications in which the required pumping power is high, a substrate having a high thermal diffusion coefficient, such as for example silicon, is preferably used. But, the substrate can be maintained in a predetermined temperature range, by heating or

  cooling, using an external device or at least partly reporting.

  The various elements of the device, which will be described below, can be installed on or in the substrate 2 by any technique or combination of techniques known to those skilled in the art. It may in particular be the technique known as passive alignment, which consists in positioning and fixing optical elements in selected positions, possibly identified by visual eVou mechanical elements, or its automated variant known as pick and place, or the active alignment technique, consists in positioning and fixing optical elements with a positioning optimization phase based on measurements of one or more optical characteristics such as insertion loss, the position of a focal point, or

2 o ['orientation of a beam.

  Furthermore, the fixation (or immobilization) of the optical elements on the substrate can be carried out, for example, by gluing eVou laser welding or laser brazing (for example with a glass powder or a metal powder). On this substrate are reported monomode type optical pumping means, such as for example a laser diode 3 delivering a beam of light of a wavelength (and therefore of an energy) adapted to the transition of components of the amplification and guidance means (such as, for example, erbium ions) towards certain energy levels, under conditions such that the stimulated emission becomes more important than the absorption and thereby the gain. within the amplification and guiding means becomes positive thus allowing an amplification of the light signal requ. The single-mode laser diode 3 is coupled to amplification and guidance means 4 via passive coupling optical elements well known to those skilled in the art and schematized here, in a non-limiting manner.

  by microlenses 5, 6 and a semireflecting micromirror 7.

  In this example, the amplification and guidance means preferably comprise an optical fiber amplification and guidance 4 installed in a substantially rectilinear position on the upper surface 1 of the substrate 2. It is essential that the optical fiber amplification ensures guiding the light (or signal) to be amplified and guiding the energy of

  pumping deilvree by the pump laser.

  Typically, the amplification and guide fiber 4 has a length of about 50 mm (millimeters). But of course, this length is

chosen according to the needs.

  The amplification medium of the amplification and guiding fiber 4 is for example a glass, or a glass derivative, preferably doping with an ion or a complex of rare earth, such as for example erbium, thulium, neodymium, ie praseodymium, or dysprosium, or with a metal ion, such as chromium. One can also provide a codopant

  increasing the absorption cross section, such as ytterbium.

  Particularly interesting glasses and glass derivatives for dopants and codopants include tellurite glasses, phosphate-based glasses, silica-based glasses, bismuth-based glasses, aluminosilicate glasses, borate glasses, alumina glasses, silica soda lime glasses or Germanate glasses, optionally doped with chemical species such as alkaline ions, in particular having the effect of creating rare earth ion accepting sites. the glass may also include nanoparticles

  of amplification, preferentially doped, in amorphous or crystalline phase.

  In this last case, we then speak of nano-crystals or vitro-ceramics. These nanoparticles wind dispersed in a host material (such as silica glass or one of the other materials presented above). Their characteristic dimensions are preferentially less than one micron, and more

  preferentially still below 10 nanometers.

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  Similarly, instead of a glass or one of its derivatives, it is possible to use a polymer fiber (for example PMMA ("Poly-Methyl-Metacrylate)" or other well-known organic materials. of the art man, such as those described, for example, in Lenneke H. Slooff's "Rare-earth doped polymer waveguides and light emitting diodes", or in the book "Optoelectronics". at CNET Bagneux 1975-1996,

  selection of the main publications >> by Joseph Zyss, ed. France Telecom).

  In certain circumstances, it is also possible to envisage the use of crystals (for example YAG (Yttrium-Aluminum Garnet), WO4 (Yttrium Vanadate), CAS (Calcium-Aluminum-Strontium) monocrystals, polycrystals or ceramics. ), lithium niobate, YSO, CNGG,

YSGG, Alumina or YAP).

  As the man of the art, the dope fibers erblum wind particularly interesting in that they offer a ratio amplification / high losses for a light whose wavelength is 1550 nm (nanometers), which is very used in the field of optical communications. More specifically, in this wavelength range the amplifier is very insensitive to light polarization and has a wide gain range (typically 30 nm) and low losses.

Insertion.

  When the light to be amplified has a wavelength of about 1550 nm and the amplifier 4 is a doped erblum fiber, it is possible to use a pump laser diode 3 delivering a pump beam having a wavelength of about 980 nm or about 1480 nm, or in some cases

  Approximately 800 nm (for example in the case of Ytterbium co-doping).

  The end of the optical fiber 4, which is coupled to the laser diode 3, is also coupled to light guiding means 8 in which the light to be amplified (or signal, for example at 1550 nm) circulates. In the example, the guiding means 8 is produced in the form of a feed optical fiber. Moreover, the coupling between this supply fiber 8 and the amplification and guiding fiber 4 is carried out using passive optical elements, coupling, well known to those skilled in the art and schematises. here, in a nonlimiting manner, by a micro-lens 9, an insulator

  and the semi-reflective micro-mirror 7 and micro-lens 6.

  The opposite end of the optical fiber 4 is coupled to light guiding means 11 for collecting the amplified light in the presence of the pumping energy. In the example, the guiding means 11 is carried out in the form of a collection optical fiber. Moreover, the coupling between this collection fiber 11 and the amplification and guide fiber 4 is carried out using passive optical coupling elements, which are well known to those skilled in the art and schematisbs here. , in a non-limiting way, by

  microlenses 12, 13 and an insulator 14.

  The ends of the feed and collection fibers 10, opposed to the insulators, pass through a "front" wall of the box 15, by means of

  orifices preferably arranged in such a way as to ensure hermeticity.

  Typically, an amplification device having a configuration of the type of that illustrated in FIG. 1 may have dimensions of the order of 90 mm × 25 mm × 12 mm, whereas the dimensions of the devices of the prior art typically wind. of the order of 90 mm x 70 mm

x 12 mm.

  The amplification and guidance means wind preferably anti-reflective, at the wavelength of the signal to be amplified, at the input and output facets of the signal. The same applies to the inlet facet (s) of the pump (s), to the pumping wave length (s). The

  Anti-reflective treatment techniques are well known to those skilled in the art.

  For use of the device with a "WDM" type signal, the anti-reflection treatments, at the wavelength of the signal to be amplified, made at the input and output facets of the signal, preferentially wind

  defined to form a gain equalizer filter.

  On the other hand, it is also possible to orientate at an angle of, typically, a few degrees, the normal of a facet at least with respect to

  the optical axis, in order to evacuate the optical path reflected reflective light.

  Orientation techniques are also well known to those skilled in the art. Of course, one could consider many other configurations than that illustrated in Figure 1 by way of example. Therefore, the optical coupling means implanted on the substrate 2 will vary according to the

configurations and needs.

  In the example which has just been described with reference to FIG. 1, the substrate 1 is carried on the bottom of a box 15. But, in a variant, the

  substrate 1 may be the wall defining said bottom of box 15.

  Referring now to Figure 2 to describe a second embodiment of amplification device according to the invention. This is a variant of the device shown in Figure 1, wherein the optical fiber 4 is no longer implanted in a rectilinear position, but conformed so as to constitute a winding of one or more loops. In this case, the diameter of the loop may be of the order of 20 to 30 mm (millimeters) and a total fiber length of about 1 m (meter) can be easily obtained, if necessary. In this variant, the substrate 1 is also reported on the

  bottom of box 15 or constitutes said bottom.

  In another variant, not iliustree, one could use a U-shaped fiber. Reference is now made to FIG. 3 to describe a third embodiment of amplification device according to the invention. This is a variant of the device shown in Figure 2, in which is provided inside

  box 15, a partition wall 16 defining two areas 17 and 18.

  In the first zone 17 wind preferentially housed the pump laser 3 and the passive optical elements (micro-lenses 5, 6, 9, 12 and 13, insulators 10 and 14, and semi-reflective micro-mirror 7). In the second zone 18 is preferentially accommodated the optical fiber amplification and guidance 4, and

  than possibly the control and / or control electronics.

  The ends of the optical fiber amplification and guidance 4 through the partition 16 at the crossings (or orifices), so as to lead into the first zone 17, substantially facing the micro

lenses 6 and 13.

  Preferentially, the partition 16 and its bushings provide hermeticity between the first zone 17, containing the pump laser 3, and the second zone 18, containing the optical fiber 4. This makes it possible to avoid

  that the amplification fiber does not pollute the laser.

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  In this embodiment, the substrate 1 is also reported on the bottom of box 15 or constitutes said bottom. This substrate may be optionally in two parts, one supporting the passive elements and the laser, the other supporting the amplification fiber and guide. This variant is more particularly adapted to the case where the substrate constitutes the bottom of the box, the latter can also be constituted of two sub-boxes.

  secured to one another and separated by the partition 16.

  At least some of the elements presented above may be partially or totally implanted in adapted housings formed in the substrate 2, or in at least one of its layers when it has a multilayer configuration. This can help reduce

  the size of the amplification device.

  Some housing can be used for the precise positioning of the optical elements. They may be accompanied or replaced by protrusions (studs, stops) serving as mechanical eVou visual detrompors or wedges or fastening means, particularly in the context of a passive alignment. For example, a V groove can be formed by etching to position the doped fiber eV or the ends of the input and output fibers. A parallelepipedic housing or pad may also be formed to secure the pump laser chip or insulator. One can still form a U groove to position a micro-mirror treats

antireflection or a micro-lens.

  Such housings or protrusions can be obtained by any means known to those skilled in the art, such as for example by etching (in particular by reactive ion etching (RIE)). But other techniques can be used as for example the FHD (Flame Hydrolysis

  Deposition) in particular for silica, or laser or electronic machining ("e-

beam >>).

  Referring now to Figure 4 to describe a fourth embodiment of amplification device according to the invention. This is a variant of the device illustrated in FIG. 3, in which only part of the components of the device is implanted on the substrate 1, which is preferably

constitutes by the bottom of the box.

  More precisely, in this variant, the pump laser 3 and the micro-laser

  lens 5 wind instailes on the substrate 1 in the first area 17, while the optical fiber amplification and guidance 4 is installed on the substrate 1 in the second zone 18. It can also be envisaged that the substrate comprises two soul -parts reported in two sousboA'tiers constitute the

  box 15, or constitute the funds of these two sub-booths.

  The other passive optical elements are now housed at least partly in one or, as illustrated, in several receptacles called "queues". In the example shown, a first tube 19 houses the micro lens 9, the isolator 10, the micro-mirror 7 and the end of the feed fiber 8, a second tube 20 houses the micro-lens 6, a third port 21 houses the micro-lens 12, and a fourth port 22 houses the isolator 14, the

  micro-lens 13 and the end of the collection fiber 1 1.

  The first 19 and fourth 22 tanks pass through the "front" wall 23 of the Bo'Atier 15, through orifices or bushings, preferably, so as to ensure hermeticity. They consequently open in the first zone 17 and outside the bo'Atier 15. The second 20 and third 21 ducts pass through the partition 16, through orifices or crossing agencies, preferably, so as to ensure hermeticity. They open by

  in the first 17 and second 18 zones. In addition, micro-

  lenses can be used to ensure hermeticity at the level of the bores. The purpose of this configuration is always, preferentially, to avoid

  that the laser is polluted by the amplification fiber.

  When the crossings or orifices are placed at a higher level than the substrate, the implant elements are raised in zones 17 and 18

  (pump, micro-lens and amplification fiber).

  In this embodiment, the constituents of the device are therefore implanted in box 15, either directly on the substrate (or the bottom), or

  through receptacles (queuots).

  The box 15 of the device according to the invention may comprise a plurality of pumping means 3, a plurality of amplification and guidance means 4, a plurality of first passive optical elements 6, 7, 9, 10, and a plurality of second passive optical elements 12. at 14, as well as possibly several elements

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  auxiliary devices, so as to constitute a multi-channel amplifier (or a

amplifier bar >>).

  The invention is not limited to the embodiments described above,

  only as an example, but it encompasses all the variants that

  consider those skilled in the art within the scope of the claims below.

  The device according to the invention may comprise elements other than those presented above, optical or otherwise, preferably passive, but not necessarily. For example, it may be pump-signal wavelength multiplexers, eVou static or variable equalizing filters, eVou static or variable attenuators, eVou rejectbiter filters, eVou means of regulation of the temperature of the medium amplifying and guiding, eVou means for regulating the temperature of the pump laser, or means for regulating the temperature of the complete device, eVou means for controlling the optical power of the signal to amplify eVou of the amplified signal, eVo means of control of the power of the pump laser, eVou a compact control electronics such as an ASIC or a "3D cube" of the type of those marketed by the company 3Dplus, eVou a gain equalizer filter static dynamic eVou, eVou of a variable optical attenuator (<< VOA >>), eVou means of selective filtering in wavelength, for example to reject a band of wavelength different from the band of length of signal wave ampl ifier, eVou channel multiplexing means, eVou means of demultiplexing channels,

eVou switching means.

  On the other hand, an exemplary embodiment using an erbium-doped amplification fiber for amplifying a signal whose wavelength is between about 1525 nm and 1610 nm has been presented. But other bands of wavelength can be considered. Thus, a device according to the invention, equipped with a thulium-doped fiber, can amplify a signal whose wavelength is between about 1450 nm and 1520 nm, by means of a pump laser delivering one or several wavelengths of about 1060

nm eVou 1240 nm eVou 1550 nm.

  Many applications can be envisaged for the device according to the invention. Thus, it can serve as a power amplifier (<< booster >>)

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  or pre-amplifier in terminal equipment "(in transmission or reception), whether they are located at the end of a point-to-point line or a network node, for example on the insertion or extraction port of an optical add / drop multiplexer (<< 0ADM >>). In this case, it is possible to amplify a selected channel or a soul-multiplex (or sub-band) of the transmission multiplex. One could also consider a "WDM" type application for the on-line amplification of the main multiplex or a band of this central multiplex, such as for example the C-band in a C + L system where C typically represents the band. 1529 - 1561 nm and L

  typically represents the band 1569 -1603 nm.

Claims (28)

  1. Optical amplification device, characterized in that it comprises a box (15) comprising optical pumping means (3) for delivering pumping energy, means for amplifying and guiding light ( 4) adapted to receive and guide said pumping energy and a light to amplify and deliver an amplified light, first passive optical coupling elements (6,7,9,10) adapted to receive said light to amplify first means of guiding (8) and feeding said light amplifying means (4) with this light to be amplified, and second passive optical coupling elements (12-14) able to collect said amplified light by said amplification means ( 4), in the presence of the pumping energy lad, to deliver it to second guide means of light (11).   2. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that at least one of the pumping means (3), the amplification and guidance means (4), the first passive optical elements (6,7,9,10 ) and seconds   passive optical elements (12-14) is implanted on a substrate (2).   3. Device according to claim 2, characterized in that the pumping means (3), the amplification and guidance means (4), the first optical elements passHs (6,7,9,10) and the second elements passive optics   (12-14) implants on said substrate (2).   4. Device according to one of claims 2 and 3, characterized in that   Said substrate (2) is a wall defining the bottom of said box (15).   5. Device according to one of claims 2 and 3, characterized in that   said substrate (2) is mounted on a wall defining the bottom of said box (15).   6. Device according to one of claims 2 to 5, characterized in that   said box comprises a partition (16) defining a first zone (17), in which wind implements the pumping means (3), the first passive optical elements (6, 7, 9, 10) and the second optical elements passive (12-14), and a second zone (18), in which wind implants the means 16 2837290 amplification and guidance (4).   7. Device according to one of claims 2, 4, 5 and 6, characterized in   at least a portion of the first passive optical elements (6, 7, 9, 10) and passive second optical elements (12-14) are implanted in at least one receptacle passing through a wall (23) in said box tier (15) and / or said partition (16).   8. Device according to one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that   said amplifying and guiding means (4) comprise a material selected from a group comprising glasses, glass derivatives and Polymers.   9. D ispositif according to claim ication 8, characterized in that it led it   Material is doped with an ion or rare earth complex.   10. Device according to claim 9, characterized in that the ion or the rare earth complex is chosen from a group comprising thulium,   I'erblum, neodymium, praseodyme and dysprosium.   11. Device according to claim 8, characterized in that said   material is doped with a metal ion, especially chromium.   12. Device according to claim 8, characterized in that said   material contains doped nanoparticles.   13. Device according to one of claims 1 to 12, characterized in that   that said amplification and guidance means comprise a fiber   optical guidance and amplification (4).   14. Device according to claim 13, characterized in that said fiber   optical (4) is installed in a substantially rectilinear position.   15. Device according to claim 13, characterized in that said optical fiber (4) is arranged substantially in the form of a U. 16. Device according to claim 13, characterized in that said optical fiber (4) is arranged in the form of a winding constitutes at least a loop.   17. Device according to one of claims 2 to 16, characterized in that   said amplifying and guiding means (4) is connected to a   upper face (1) of the substrate (2).   18. Device according to one of claims 2 to 17, characterized in that   said amplification and guidance means (4) have at least one implant   partially in said substrate (2).   19. Device according to one of claims 1 to 18, characterized in that   said passive optical coupling elements (6,7,9,10,10,12-14) are selected from a group comprising at least micro-mirrors, micro-lenses, isolators, wavelength signaling multiplexers, static or variable equalizing filters, static attenuators or   variables, and rejector filters.   20. Device according to one of claims 1 to 19, characterized in that   said housing (15) houses at least one auxiliary control element eVou de Control eVou of control.   21. Device according to claim 20, characterized in that said auxiliary element is chosen from a group comprising at least the eVou filtering elements eVou channel multiplexing eVou   demultiplexing channels eVou switching.   22. Device according to one of claims 2 to 21, characterized in that   at least one of the means and elements selected from the group comprising the optical pumping means (3), the first passive coupling elements (6, 7, 9, 10) and the second passive coupling elements ( 12-14), is at least partially implanted in a suitable housing form   in said substrate (2) at a selected location.   23. Device according to one of claims 2 to 22, characterized in that   said substrate (2) has a top face provided with at least one protruding portion forming a rectifier eVou for receiving or wedging a   at least part of at least one of said means or elements.   24. Device according to one of claims 2 to 23, characterized in that   at least a portion of said substrate (1) is made of a selected material   in a group comprising silica, AlN and silicon.   25. Device according to one of claims 1 to 24, characterized in that   it comprises a gain equalizer filter made on at least one face of at least one of the first passive optical elements (6, 7, 9, 10), second   passive optical elements (12-14) and auxiliary elements.   26. Device according to one of claims 1 to 25, characterized in that   it includes a gain equalizer filter performed on at least one of the   input and output facets of the amplification and guiding means (4).   27. Device according to one of claims 1 to 26, characterized in that   it comprises a plurality of pumping means (3), a plurality of amplification and guiding means (4), a plurality of first passive optical elements (6, 7, 9, 10), a plurality of passive second optical elements (12-14). many   auxiliary elements housed in said housing (15).   28. Use of the device according to one of the preceding claims