An optical amplifier and a laser generator based on the fiber
side-polished technology, having a high pumping efficiency, a low noise
figure and a small footprint are provided in this application. The
optical amplifier and the laser, which have a very long effective
interaction length in conjunction with highly doped Erbium glass attached
to its surface and an addition of a slanted fiber grating inscribed in
the guiding core at the polished region can spatially separate the signal
and pump power to simultaneously improve the pumping efficiency and
optimize the penetrated depth of the signal evanescent-field. The
spontaneous emission is kept from being amplified and therefore a high
quality amplified signal is produced.