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Output Power Saturation Effect in Cladding-Pumped Bismuth-Doped Fiber Lasers

In this article, output power characteristics of cladding-pumped lasers based on bismuth-doped phospho- and germanosilicate core glass fibers were thoroughly studied and analyzed. The developed lasers are capable of providing the output power of several hundred milliwatts with the slope efficiency close to 1%. The output power saturation for the Bi-doped germanosilicate fiber laser and absence of the saturation regime for the Bi-doped phosphosilicate fiber one was found. This effect is explained by a relatively long relaxation time of bismuth active centers (BACs), namely a non-radiative transition from the higher-lying pump level to the upper laser (metastable) level in the corresponding energy levels diagram. The experimentally obtained data are in good agreement with the results of numerical simulation. In addition, it was investigated that the relaxation time of the BACs from the higher-lying level can have a significant impact on the laser efficiency and the achieved output power. The consequences caused by the saturation effect is possible to overcome with dual-wavelength pumping (combining cladding-pumping at 808-nm wavelength and core-pumping at a wavelength in the range of 1930 – 2040 nm), which provides both the BACs excitation and the stimulated relaxation of BACs from the excited (pump) state to the upper laser level. Using this approach the output power of the Bi-doped fiber laser was increased by almost two times.

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JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY; Vol.41 No.2 January 15 2023

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p. 709-715

Bahasa

English

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NONE

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Tipe Media

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Subjek

LASER
OPTICAL FIBER
BISMUTH
ACTIVE CENTER

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DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2022.3219549

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