• DocumentCode
    449279
  • Title

    Energy transfer processes elated to the S-band transition in Tm3+ doped silica fibres

  • Author

    Simpson, David A. ; Baxter, Greg W. ; Collins, Stephen F. ; Keith Gibbs, W.E. ; Blanc, W.

  • Author_Institution
    OTRL-CTMF, Victoria Univ., Melbourne, Vic.
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    2005
  • Firstpage
    759
  • Abstract
    An energy transfer up-conversion process is observed in thulium-doped alumino-silicate fibres for Tm2O3 concentrations as low as 35 ppm-mol. This important mechanism to the 1470-nm gain band efficiency is studied with a simple model
  • Keywords
    aluminium compounds; optical fibres; photoluminescence; population inversion; thulium; energy transfer; gain band efficiency; thulium-doped alumino-silicate fibres; up-conversion;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Glasgow
  • ISSN
    0537-9989
  • Print_ISBN
    0-86341-543-1
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1576496