Operation of cladding-pumped Yb3+-doped silica fibre lasers in 1μm region

Electronics Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 1994, Pages 863-865

  Pask, H M ^a   Archambault, J L ^a   Hanna, D C ^a   Reekie, L ^a   Russell, P St J ^a   Townsend, J E ^a   Tropper, A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fibre lasers; Optical pumping

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL PUMPING; PERFORMANCE; QUENCHING;

CONCENTRATION QUENCHING; EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION; FREE RUNNING FIBRE LASER; GERMANOSILICATE CORE; MULTIPHONON NONRADIATIVE DECAY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE FIBRE GRATING; YTTERBIUM DOPED SILICA FIBER LASER; ZBLAN FIBER AMPLIFIER;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0028427474     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19940594     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. 3+-doped fluoride fiber amplifier operating at 1.31 μm’, Opt. Lett., 1991, 16, (22), pp. 1747-1749
2. Barber, P. R., Mackechnie, C. J., Lauder, R. D. T., Pask, H. M., Tropper, A. C., Hanna, D. C., Butterworth, S. D., Mccarthy, M. J., Archambault, I. L., and Reekie, L.: ‘All solid-state blue room-temperature Thulium-doped upconversion fibre laser’. Compact Blue-Green Lasers, Salt-Lake City, Utah, USA, Tech. Dig., 1994, Paper CFA3-1 pp. 68-70
3. Hanna, D. C., Percival, R. M., Perry, I. R., Smart, R. G., Suni, P. J., and Tropper, A. C.: ‘Yb-doped monomode fibre laser: broadly tunable operation from 1.010μm to 1.162μm and 3-level operation at 974nm’, J. Modem Optics, 1987, 37, pp. 329-331
4. ; intracore Bragg gratings operating at 1.02μm’, Electron. Lett., 1993, 29, (3), pp. 309-310
5. Po, H., Snitzer, E., Tumminelli, R., Zenteno, L., Hakami, F., Cho, N. M., and Haw, T.: ‘Doubly-clad brightness Nd fiber laser pumped by GaAlAs phased array’. Proc. OFC, Houston, TX, 1989, PD7
6. Gapontsev, V. P., and Smartsev, L.: ‘Laser diode pumped Yb-doped single-mode tunable fibre laser’. Advanced Solid State Lasers, 1991, WCI-1
7. 3+ on host glass composition’, IEEE J. Quantum Electron., 1983, QE-19, (10), pp. 1600-1608
8. Meltz, G., Morey, W. W., and Glenn, W. H.: ‘Formation of Bragg gratings in optical fibres bv a transverse holographic method’, Opt. Lett., 1989, 14, (15), pp. 823-825