Title : 
Growth of glass-clad Cr4+:YSO crystal fiber for white light interferometry
         
        
            Author : 
Kuang-Yu Hsu ; Shih-Chang Wang ; Dong-Yo Jheng ; Tuan-Shu Ho ; Teng-I Yang ; Sheng-Lung Huang
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Grad. Inst. of Photonics & Optoelectron., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Glass-clad Cr4+:YSO crystal fibers were grown using the laser-heated pedestal growth method. Quasi-3-level behavior of the Cr4+:YSO was observed, and the emission was red shifted to 1302 nm with a 3-dB bandwidth of 230 nm.
         
        
            Keywords : 
chromium; crystal growth; laser materials processing; light interferometry; luminescence; optical fibre cladding; optical fibre fabrication; red shift; yttrium compounds; Y2SiO5:Cr; glass-clad crystal fiber growth; laser-heated pedestal growth method; quasi-3-level behavior; red shift; white light interferometry; Bandwidth; Broadband communication; Coherence; Crystals; Fiber lasers; Light sources; Optical fibers;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Jose, CA