Highly ytterbium-doped silica fibers with low photo-darkening

Autor: Shigeru Suzuki, Hugh A. McKay, Xiang Peng, Libin Fu, Liang Dong
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Optics express. 17(12)
ISSN: 1094-4087
Popis: Phosphorus co-doping is known to reduce clustering levels of rare earth ions in silica hosts. In this paper, ytterbium-doped silica fibers with approximately 8.9 wt% Yb(2)O(3), up to approximately 4700 dB/m peak core absorption at 976 nm, and low photo-darkening are demonstrated using high phosphorus co-doping. Measured gain as high as approximately 7 dB/cm is demonstrated in the fiber.
Databáze: OpenAIRE