Research of novel highly thulium-doped silicate glass fiber and related fiber lasers

Junxiang Zhang; Wei Shi; Chaodu Shi; Qiang Fang; Shijie Fu; Quan Sheng; Xiushan Zhu; Nasser Peyghambarian; Jianquan Yao

doi:10.3788/IRLA20200424

[1] Wei Shi, Shijie Fu, Qiang Fang, et al. Single-frequency fiber laser based on rare-earth-doped silica fiber. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 45, 1003001(2016).

[2] N Simakov, A V Hemming, A Carter, et al. Design and experimental demonstration of a large pedestal thulium-doped fibre. Optics Express, 23, 3126-3133(2015).

[3] W C Wang, B Zhou, S H Xu, et al. Recent advances in soft optical glass fiber and fiber lasers. Progress in Materials Science, 101, 90-171(2019).

[4] M Eckerle, C Kieleck, J Świderski, et al. Actively Q-switched and mode-locked Tm³⁺-doped silicate 2 μm fiber laser for supercontinuum generation in fluoride fiber. Optics Letters, 37, 512-514(2012).

[5] Z Zhang, A J Boyland, J K Sahu, et al. High-power single-frequency thulium-doped fiber DBR laser at 1943 nm. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 23, 417-419(2011).

[6] M D Burns, P C Shardlow, P Barua, et al. 47 W continuous-wave 1726 nm thulium fiber laser core-pumped by an erbium fiber laser. Optics Letters, 44, 5230-5233(2019).

[7] S Fu, W Shi, Y Feng, et al. Review of recent progress on single-frequency fiber lasers [Invited]. Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 34, A49-A62(2017).

[8] H Gebavi, D Milanese, R Balda, et al. Spectroscopy of thulium and holmium heavily doped tellurite glasses. Journal of Luminescence, 132, 270-276(2012).

[9] S D Jackson, T A King. Theoretical modeling of Tm-doped silica fiber lasers. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 17, 948-956(1999).

[10] M Li, G Bai, Y Guo, et al. Investigation on Tm³⁺-doped silicate glass for 1.8 μm emission. Journal of Luminescence, 132, 1830-1835(2012).

[11] G Tang, T Zhu, W Liu, et al. Tm³⁺ doped lead silicate glass single mode fibers for 2 μm laser applications. Optical Materials Express, 6, 2147-2157(2016).

[12] L Zhang, J Zhang, C Yu, et al. A method for emission cross section determination of Tm³⁺ at 2.0 μm emission. Journal of Applied Physics, 108, 103117(2010).

[13] Guowu Tang, Xin Wen, Kaimin Huang, et al. Tm³⁺ -doped barium gallo-germanate glass single-mode fiber with high gain per unit length for ultracompact 1.95 µm laser. Applied Physics Express, 11, 032701(2018).