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Distributed Feed Back (DFB) lasers working in the third telecom window are essential for optical communications, eyesafe sensors and lab-on-chip devices. Glass integrated optics technology allows realizing such devices by using rareearth doped substrates. Despite their good output power and spectral characteristic, DFB lasers still present some reliability issues concerning the Bragg grating protection. Moreover Erbium doped glasses are not compatible with the realization of passive optical functions. In order to solve the DFB lasers reliability issues and to ensure a monolithic integration between active and passive functions, we propose an hybrid-device architecture based on ion-exchange technology and wafer bonding. The Ag+/Na+ion-exchange in the silicate glass wafer is used to realize the passive functions and the lateral confinement of the electromagnetic field. Through a second ion exchange step, a slab waveguide is made on the Erbium-Ytterbium doped glass wafer. The Bragg grating is processed on the passive substrate and the two glasses are bonded. The potential of this structure has been demonstrated through the realization of a DFB hybrid laser with a fully encapsulated Bragg grating.

Mode-lock lasers have been studied a lot in the past years for producing pulses as short as possible. These devices have mostly been realized in bulk optics and they are consequently cumbersome and sensitive to vibrations. There are only a few studies on integrated optics mode-lock lasers, though this technology is very promising because of its stability, compactness and the possibility to integrate several functions on a single chip. In this paper, we present an ion-exchange passively mode-locked laser in dissipative soliton operation. One of the key characteristics of this structure is its mechanical stability. Indeed, no bulk optics is needed because the saturable absorber is hybridized on the top of the waveguide in order to interact with the evanescent part of the guided mode. Indeed, the device that has been obtained is composed of an ion-exchanged single mode waveguide realized in a Neodymium doped phosphate glass. The laser feedback is produced by a Fabry-Perot cavity realized with two multilayers dielectric mirrors stuck on the waveguides facets. We implemented a bis(4- dimethylaminodithiobenzil)nickel (BDN) dye included in a cellulose acetate thick film, which presents a saturable absorber behaviour around 1.06 m. With this structure, pulses with repetition rates of 3.3 GHz and a single mode output have been measured. Moreover, the use of an autocorrelation set-up allowed us measuring picosecond pulse durations.