Title : 
Concentration Quenching of the 1.5 µm Emission of Er3+-Doped Bismuth Borate Glasses
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Phys., Daqing Normal Univ., Daqing, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Concentration quenching of Er3+ fluorescence has been quantitatively investigated in bismuth borate glasses with a serial of Er3+ concentrations. The analysis of the total decay rate of the 4I13/2 state of Er3+ has been used to determine the dominant cause of quenching. On the basis of the electric dipole-dipole interaction mechanism, the quenching parameters were determined and compared with other Er3+-doped glasses.
         
        
            Keywords : 
bismuth compounds; borate glasses; erbium compounds; fluorescence; radiation quenching; B2O3-Bi2O3-Er2O3; bismuth borate glasses; concentration quenching; electric dipole-dipole interaction; fluorescence; wavelength 1.5 mum; Absorption; Bismuth; Energy exchange; Fluorescence; Glass; Ions; Optical amplifiers;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Photonics and Optoelectronics (SOPO), 2012 Symposium on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Shanghai
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4577-0909-8
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/SOPO.2012.6270513