We report on the fabrication and characterization of activewaveguides in a TeO2-ZnO glass sample dopedwith Er3+/Yb3+ fabricated\nby direct laser writing with a femtosecond laser delivering 150 fs pulses at 1 kHz repetition rate. The waveguides exhibit an internal\ngain of 0.6 dB/cm at 1535 nm, thus demonstrating the feasibility of active photonics lightwave circuits and lossless components in\nsuch a glass composition.
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