• DocumentCode
    689392
  • Title

    Upconversion lasing for index sensing and strong amplitude modulation of WGMs in Er-Yb co-doped tellurite spheres

  • Author

    Yinlan Ruan ; Boyd, Kyle ; Hong Ji ; Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Heike ; Munch, Jurgen ; Monro, Tanya M.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Photonics & Adv. Sensing, Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We fabricated Er-Yb codoped tellurite spheres for strong upconversion WGM lasing with Q up to 27,000 for 15μm diameter and achieved the index sensitivity of 8.8nm/RIU. Strong amplitude modulation in the modes was also observed.
  • Keywords
    amplitude modulation; erbium; laser beams; optical glass; optical modulation; solid lasers; tellurium compounds; whispering gallery modes; ytterbium; (TeO2-ZnO-Na2O-La2O3):(Er,Yb); Er-Yb co-doped tellurite spheres; index sensing; index sensitivity; size 15 mum; strong amplitude modulation; strong upconversion WGM lasing; Fiber lasers; Glass; Indexes; Laser excitation; Nonlinear optics; Optical resonators;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6833776
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=689392