Small signal gain and saturation intensity of an upconversion-pumped Ho:ZBLAN laser amplifier and oscillator

Author

Senin, A.A. ; Talmadge, J.M. ; Eden, J.G. ; Mejia, E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Abstract

Summary form only given. In this paper, we present experimental measurements of the gain and saturation intensity for a Ho:ZBLAN fiber amplifier operating in the green. To our knowledge, the saturation intensity measurements are the first for any upconversion-pumped fiber oscillator or amplifier. Both of the amplifier parameters reported here are critical to the design of amplifiers for LANs in the visible, for example, and the implications of these results for communications and other applications are discussed.

Keywords

fluorescence; holmium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pumping; optical saturation; LANs; ZBLAN:Ho; ZrF4-BaF2-LaF3-AlF3-NaF:Ho; communications applications; fluorescence suppression; green region operation; saturation intensity; small signal gain; upconversion-pumped Ho:ZBLAN fiber amplifier; Fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Mirrors; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber couplers; Oscillators; Pump lasers; Semiconductor lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-706-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2002.1034271

Filename

1034271