• DocumentCode
    2157189
  • Title

    Thermally induced optical bistability in Yb3+-Er3+ co-doped phosphate glass microspheres at room temperature

  • Author

    Ward, Jonathan M. ; Shea, D. G O ; Shortt, B.J. ; Chormaic, S. Nic

  • Author_Institution
    Cork Inst. of Technol., Cork
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    17-22 June 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    1
  • Abstract
    This paper reports the first observation of chromatic and intensity optical bistability (OB) in a commercial, active, phosphate glass (Schott IOG-2) microsphere driven by thermal avalanche at room temperature. This is, to the best of our knowledge, the first report of simultaneous intensity OB (at multiple wavelengths) and chromatic OB in a single material.
  • Keywords
    erbium; fluorescence; optical bistability; optical glass; phosphate glasses; ytterbium; Jk:Yb3+,Er3+; P2O5-SiO2-YbO-ErO; chromatic bistability; optical bistability; phosphate glass microspheres; room temperature; temperature 293 K to 298 K; thermal avalanche; Absorption; Fluorescence; Glass; Heating; Land surface temperature; Light sources; Optical bistability; Optical materials; Phonons; Physics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Munich
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-0931-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-0931-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386239
  • Filename
    4386239
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2157189