Direct femtosecond laser inscription of Bragg gratings in Ho3+/Pr3+ co-doped AlF3-based glass fibers for a 2.86 µm laser
Direct femtosecond laser inscription of Bragg gratings in Ho3+/Pr3+ co-doped AlF3-based glass fibers for a 2.86 µm laser
In this Letter, we report the fabrication of fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) in home-made Ho3+/Pr3+ co-doped single-cladding fluoroaluminate (AlF3) glass fibers and its application in watt-level lasing at the mid-infrared (MIR) wavelength of 2.86 µm. The FBGs were inscribed using an 800 nm femtosecond (fs) laser direct-writing technique. The FBG properties were investigated for different pulse energies, inscription speeds, grating orders, and transversal lengths. A second-order FBG with a high reflectivity of 99% was obtained at one end of a 16.5-cm-long gain fiber. Under 1150 nm laser pumping, this fiber yielded a power exceeding 1 W at 2863.9 nm with an overall laser efficiency of 17.7%. The fiber laser showed a FWHM bandwidth of 0.46 nm and long-term spectral stability.
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1 February 2022
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Zhang, Jiquan
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Liu, Mo
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Wang, Ruoning
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Li, Zhenrui
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Jia, Shijie
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Brambilla, Gilberto
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Wang, Shunbin
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Wang, Pengfei
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Xu, Niannian, Yang, Zhiyong, Zhang, Jiquan, Lv, Nian, Liu, Mo, Wang, Ruoning, Li, Zhenrui, Jia, Shijie, Brambilla, Gilberto, Wang, Shunbin and Wang, Pengfei
(2022)
Direct femtosecond laser inscription of Bragg gratings in Ho3+/Pr3+ co-doped AlF3-based glass fibers for a 2.86 µm laser.
Optics Letters, 47 (3), .
(doi:10.1364/OL.448431).
Abstract
In this Letter, we report the fabrication of fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) in home-made Ho3+/Pr3+ co-doped single-cladding fluoroaluminate (AlF3) glass fibers and its application in watt-level lasing at the mid-infrared (MIR) wavelength of 2.86 µm. The FBGs were inscribed using an 800 nm femtosecond (fs) laser direct-writing technique. The FBG properties were investigated for different pulse energies, inscription speeds, grating orders, and transversal lengths. A second-order FBG with a high reflectivity of 99% was obtained at one end of a 16.5-cm-long gain fiber. Under 1150 nm laser pumping, this fiber yielded a power exceeding 1 W at 2863.9 nm with an overall laser efficiency of 17.7%. The fiber laser showed a FWHM bandwidth of 0.46 nm and long-term spectral stability.
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Accepted/In Press date: 16 December 2021
Published date: 1 February 2022
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Funding. National Natural Science Foundation of China (61905048, 61935006, 62005060, 62005061, 62090062); Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province (LH2020F030); National Key Research and Development Program of China (2020YFA0607602); Shenzhen Technical Project (JCYJ20190808173619062); 111 Project to the Harbin Engineering University (B13015); Heilongjiang Touyan Innovation Team Program; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (3072021CF2514, 3072021CF2533).
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Mo Liu
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