Absorption, gain, and laser action in bismuth-doped aluminosilicate optical fibers

Vladislav V. Dvoyrin; Alexander V. Kir'Yanov; Valery M. Mashinsky; Oleg I. Medvedkov; Andrey A. Umnikov; Alexei N. Guryanov; Evgeny M. Dianov

doi:10.1109/JQE.2009.2031822

Absorption, gain, and laser action in bismuth-doped aluminosilicate optical fibers

Vladislav V. Dvoyrin
, Alexander V. Kir'Yanov
, Valery M. Mashinsky
, Oleg I. Medvedkov
, Andrey A. Umnikov
, Alexei N. Guryanov
, Evgeny M. Dianov

College of Engineering and Physical Sciences

A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, A.C.
Fiber Optics Research Center of Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Chemistry of High-Purity Substances of Russian Academy of Sciences

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Abstract

In this study, bismuth-doped fiber lasers operating at the wavelength of 1179 nm with an optical efficiency of up to 28% are realized. The fiber gain upon 1-μm pumping declines, while the unsaturable absorption increases with increasing the small-signal absorption. We conclude that up-conversion and excited-state absorption are responsible for limiting the efficiency of such lasers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	182-190
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
Volume	46
Issue number	2
Early online date	22 Dec 2009
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JQE.2009.2031822
Publication status	Published - Feb 2010

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Manuscript received March 02, 2009; revised June 07, 2009 and July 29, 2009. Current version published December 23, 2009. The work was supported in part by the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research under Grants 08-02-12153, 08-02-00-717, and 09-02-01-028.

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Infrared spectroscopy
Optical fiber lasers
Optical fiber materials

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