Linkage of oxygen deficiency defects and rare earth concentrations in silica glass optical fiber probed by ultraviolet absorption and laser excitation spectroscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 14494-14507

  Liu, Y S ^a   Galvin, T C ^a   Hawkins, T ^b   Ballato, J ^b   Dong, L ^b   Foy, P R ^b   Dragic, P D ^a   Eden, J G ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b Clemson University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; DEFECTS; ENERGY TRANSFER; ERBIUM; EXCITED STATES; FIBERS; GLASS FIBERS; LASER EXCITATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; RARE EARTHS; SAPPHIRE; SILICA;

EMISSION FEATURES; ER-DOPED FIBERS; ER-DOPED GLASS; EXCITATION SPECTRUM; EXPERIMENTAL UNCERTAINTY; GLASS OPTICAL FIBERS; KRF LASERS; LASER EXCITATION SPECTROSCOPY; NUMBER DENSITY; OXYGEN DEFICIENCY; PEAK WAVELENGTH; PHOTOPUMPING; RARE EARTH CONCENTRATION; SILICA FIBERS; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER; TRANSFER MECHANISMS; TYPE II; ULTRAVIOLET ABSORPTION; YB-DOPED FIBERS; YB-DOPING;

YTTERBIUM;

GLASS; GLASS FIBER; LANTHANIDE; OXYGEN; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LASER; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ABSORPTION; GLASS; LASERS; MATERIALS TESTING; METALS, RARE EARTH; OPTICAL FIBERS; OXYGEN; SILICON DIOXIDE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

EID: 84863771363     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.014494     Document Type: Article

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