Evaluation of energy transfer coefficients in Tm-doped fibers for fiber lasers

Autor: Jan Aubrecht, Jana Proboštová, Ivan Kašík, Pavel Honzatko, Pavel Peterka, Ondřej Podrazký, Michal Kamrádek, Jakub Cajzl
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Photonics, Devices, and Systems VII.
Popis: In this work we report on the determination of the cross-relaxation energy-transfer coefficients from the measurements of the fluorescence lifetimes of the 3F4 and 3H4 energy levels of Tm3+ ions in the experimentally prepared optical fibers. Optical fiber preforms were prepared by solution-doping of Tm3+ ions with either Al3+ ions or dispersed alumina nanoparticles. Optical fibers were characterized by means of Tm, Al and Ge concentrations, refractive index profiles, optical spectral attenuations, luminescence spectra and fluorescence lifetimes. Highly aluminium-codoped optical fibers exhibited fluorescence lifetimes of up to 756 μs.
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