Title :
Homogeneous upconversion in Er-doped waveguides
Author :
Jaskorzynska, B. ; Swillo, Marcin ; Sergeyev, Sergey
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Electrum, R. Inst. of Technol., Kista, Sweden
Abstract :
Parasitic energy transfer between excited ions has been widely recognized as gain limiting factor in high-concentration Er-doped fibre amplifiers. The energy transfer leads to upconversion of the excitation which for randomly distributed (not clustered) ions is called homogeneous upconversion (HUG). For optimizing design of rare-earth doped devices it is important to properly model HUC
Keywords :
Monte Carlo methods; erbium; fluorescence; impurity absorption spectra; infrared spectra; optical fibre amplifiers; Er-doped fibre amplifiers; Er-doped waveguides; energy transfer; excitation upconversion; gain limiting factor; high-concentration; homogeneous upconversion; optimizing design; parasitic energy transfer; randomly distributed; rare-earth doped devices; Acceleration; Analytical models; Design optimization; Doped fiber amplifiers; Electrons; Energy exchange; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Kinetic theory; Optical waveguides;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks, 2000 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Gdansk
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6337-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2000.874108