Highly efficient Er3+ doped fibre lasers pumped at 980nm
Highly efficient Er3+ doped fibre lasers pumped at 980nm
The Er3+ fibre laser operates at a wavelength between 1.5 and 1.6 microns and is thus of interest for both telecommunication purposes and, since it can be Q-switched to give high pulse powers, in eye-safe range-finding systems. To date, ~810nm has been the preferred pump wavelength owing to the ready availability of laser diodes. However, the 810nm pump band of Er3+ suffers from the serious disadvantage of pump excited-state absorption (ESA). As a result much of the pump light is wasted in exciting ions from the metastable level to a still higher energy level, rather than producing stimulated emission. This is reflected in the best reported slope efficiency of 17%, obtained for Er3+ sensitized with Yb3+.
Barnes, W.L.
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Reekie, L.
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Payne, D.N.
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1989
Barnes, W.L.
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Reekie, L.
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Payne, D.N.
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Barnes, W.L., Reekie, L. and Payne, D.N.
(1989)
Highly efficient Er3+ doped fibre lasers pumped at 980nm.
7th International Conference on Integrated Optics & Optical Fibre Communication, , Kobe, Japan.
18 - 21 Jul 1989.
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The Er3+ fibre laser operates at a wavelength between 1.5 and 1.6 microns and is thus of interest for both telecommunication purposes and, since it can be Q-switched to give high pulse powers, in eye-safe range-finding systems. To date, ~810nm has been the preferred pump wavelength owing to the ready availability of laser diodes. However, the 810nm pump band of Er3+ suffers from the serious disadvantage of pump excited-state absorption (ESA). As a result much of the pump light is wasted in exciting ions from the metastable level to a still higher energy level, rather than producing stimulated emission. This is reflected in the best reported slope efficiency of 17%, obtained for Er3+ sensitized with Yb3+.
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Published date: 1989
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7th International Conference on Integrated Optics & Optical Fibre Communication, , Kobe, Japan, 1989-07-18 - 1989-07-21
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