Title : 
Analytic approximation for migration assisted upconversion in Er-doped silica after short-pulse excitation
         
        
            Author : 
Khoptyar, Dmitry ; Jaskorzynska, Bozena ; Sergeyev, Sergey
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Lab. of Opt., Photonics & Quantum Electr., R. Inst. of Technol., Kista, Sweden
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We propose an analytic approximation describing the decay of the population inversion in Er-doped silica affected by the migration assisted homogeneous upconversion. We show that the results well agree with the Monte-Carlo simulations.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Monte Carlo methods; erbium; fibre lasers; population inversion; Er-doped silica; Monte-Carlo simulations; migration assisted upconversion; population inversion decay; short-pulse excitation;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Francisco, CA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
1-55752-777-6