Cooperative luminescence and absorption in
Ytterbium-doped silica fiber and the fiber
nonlinear transmission coefficient at λ=980 nm
with a regard to the Ytterbium ion-pairs’ effect

doi:10.1364/OE.14.003981

Cooperative luminescence and absorption in Ytterbium-doped silica fiber and the fiber nonlinear transmission coefficient at λ=980 nm with a regard to the Ytterbium ion-pairs’ effect

Alexander V. Kir'yanov, Yuri O. Barmenkov, Itzel L. Martinez, Audrey S. Kurkov, and Evgenii M. Dianov »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 14, Issue 9, pp. 3981-3992 (2006)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.14.003981

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An experimental and theoretical investigation of the nonlinear transmission coefficient in a set of Ytterbium-doped silica fibers (YFs) with various concentrations of Yb³⁺ ions at continuous-wave 980-nm pumping is reported. An analysis of the obtained experimental data shows that YF transmission coefficient is notably affected by the presence of Yb³⁺ - Yb³⁺ ion-pairs in the fibers, especially in heavily-doped ones. The last fact is confirmed by the study of the cooperative luminescence and absorption effects in the fibers, where a detailed inspection of their dependence on Yb³⁺ concentration is presented. The pairs’ effect is shown to seriously modify both the nonlinear character of YF transmission coefficient at λ = 980 nm and Yb³⁺ excited-state relaxation. A modeling of the experimental data is performed, which allows to find the coefficients addressing the pairs’ effect in each of YFs under study and, as a result, to fit the experimentally measured dependences of YF transmission coefficient on pump power, fiber length, and Yb³⁺ concentration.

OCIS Codes
(060.2270) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber characterization
(160.5690) Materials : Rare-earth-doped materials
(190.4180) Nonlinear optics : Multiphoton processes
(190.4370) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, fibers

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Nonlinear Optics

History
Original Manuscript: April 13, 2006
Manuscript Accepted: April 17, 2006
Published: May 1, 2006

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Alexander V. Kir'yanov, Yuri O. Barmenkov, Itzel L. Martinez, Audrey S. Kurkov, and Evgenii M. Dianov, "Cooperative luminescence and absorption in Ytterbium-doped silica fiber and the fiber nonlinear transmission coefficient at λ=980 nm with a regard to the Ytterbium ion-pairs’ effect," Opt. Express 14, 3981-3992 (2006)
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Auzel, F.
Barber, P. R.
Barmenkov, Yu. O.
Bausa, L. E.
Blanc, W.
Bufetov, I. A.
Carman, R. J.
Choi, Y. G.
Clarkson, A.
Cleveland, W. L.
Dawes, J. M.
de la Rosa, E.
Desirena, H.
Dianov, E. M.
Diaz-Torres, L. A.
Druetta, M.
Dussardier, B.
Espeso, O.
Faure, B.
Ferdinand, P.
Fider, D.
Frukacz, Z.
Gamelin, D. R.
Goldner, P.
Goodman, L.
Goure, J. P.
Grudinin, A. B.
Gudel, H. U.
Hanna, D. C.
Hehlen, M. P.
Huber, G.
Il’ichev, N. N.
Jeong, Y.
Karasek, M.
Kazckan, M.
Kim, K. H.
Kir’yanov, A. V.
Kravtsov, K. S.
Kurkov, A. S.
Loutts, G. B.
Lucas, B. D.
Luthi, S. R.
Mackechnie, C. J.
Magne, S.
Malinowski, M.
Meichenin, D.
Mel’kumov, M. A.
Minkovich, V. P.
Mix, E.
Monnom, G.
Montoya, E.
Nakazawa, E.
Nilsson, J.
Noginov, M. A.
Ouerdane, Y.
Pashotta, R.
Pask, H. M.
Pelle, F.
Peterka, P.
Peters, V.
Piramidowicz, R.
Pollnau, M.
Sahu, J. K.
Salas, P.
Sarnecki, J.
Schugar, H. J.
Selvas, R.
Seo, H. S.
Shaif-Ul, A.
Shin, Y. B.
Shionoya, S.
Shubin, A. B.
Solomon, E. I.
Steward, C. S.
Toratani, H.
Tropper, A. C.
Zou, X.

Chem. Phys. Lett.

Y. G. Choi, Y. B. Shin, H. S. Seo, and K. H. Kim, "Spectral evolution of cooperative luminescence in an Yb3+ -doped silica optical fiber," Chem. Phys. Lett. 364, 200-205 (2002). [CrossRef]

IEEE J. Quantum. Electron.

R. Pashotta, J. Nilsson, A. C. Tropper, and D. C. Hanna, "Ytterbium-doped fiber amplifiers," IEEE J. Quantum. Electron. 33, 1049-1056 (1997). [CrossRef]

IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum. Electron.

H. M. Pask, R. J. Carman, D. C. Hanna, A. C. Tropper, C. J. Mackechnie, P. R. Barber, and J. M. Dawes, "Ytterbium-doped silica fiber lasers: versatile sources for the 1-1.2 µm region," IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum. Electron. 1, 2-12 (1995). [CrossRef]

J. Amer. Chem. Soc.

H. J. Schugar, E. I. Solomon, W. L. Cleveland, and L. Goodman, "Simultaneous pair electronic transitions in Yb2O3," J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 97, 6442-6450 (1975). [CrossRef]

J. Luminesc.

E. Montoya, O. Espeso, and L. E. Bausa, "Cooperative luminescence in Yb3+:LiNbO3," J. Luminesc. 87-89, 1036-1038 (2000). [CrossRef]
M. A. Noginov, G. B. Loutts, C. S. Steward, B. D. Lucas, D. Fider, V. Peters, E. Mix, and G. Huber, "Spectroscopic study of Yb doped oxide crystals for intrinsic bistability," J. Luminesc. 96, 129-140 (2002). [CrossRef]
A. V. Kir’yanov, V. P. Minkovich, Yu. O. Barmenkov, M. A. Martinez Gamez, and A. Martinez-Rios, "Multi-wavelength visible up-converted luminescence in novel heavily doped Ytterbium-Holmium silica fiber under low-power IR diode pumping," J. Luminesc. 111, 1-8 (2005). [CrossRef]
M. Malinowski, M. Kazckan, R. Piramidowicz, Z. Frukacz, and J. Sarnecki, "Cooperative emission in Yb3+:YAG planar epitaxial waveguides," J. Luminesc. 94-95, 29-332001. [CrossRef]

Opt. Express

A. V. Kir’yanov, Yu. O. Barmenkov, and N. N. Il’ichev, "Excited-state absorption and ion pairs as sources of nonlinear losses in heavily-doped Erbium silica fiber and Erbium fiber laser," Opt. Express 13, 8498-8507 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Opt. Mater.

L. A. Diaz-Torres, E. de la Rosa, P. Salas, and H. Desirena, "Enhanced cooperative absorption and up-conversion in Yb3+ doped YAG nanophosphors," Opt. Mater. 27, 1305-1310 (2005). [CrossRef]
F. Auzel, D. Meichenin, F. Pelle, and P. Goldner, "Cooperative luminescence as a defining process for RE-ions clustering in glasses and crystals," Opt. Mater. 4, 35-411994. [CrossRef]

Opt. Quantum. Electron.

P. Peterka, B. Faure, W. Blanc, M. Karasek, and B. Dussardier, "Theoretical modeling of S-band Thulium-doped silica fiber amplifiers," Opt. Quantum. Electron. 36, 201-2122004. [CrossRef]

Optics. Commun.

S. Magne, Y. Ouerdane, M. Druetta, J. P. Goure, P. Ferdinand, and G. Monnom, "Cooperative luminescence in an ytterbium-doped silica fiber," Optics. Commun. 111, 310-316 (1994). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. B

M. Pollnau, D. R. Gamelin, S. R. Luthi, H. U. Gudel, and M. P. Hehlen, "Power dependence of upconversion luminescence in lanthanide and transition-metal-ion systems," Phys. Rev. B 61, 3337-3346 (2000). [CrossRef]
X. Zou and H. Toratani, "Evaluation of spectroscopic properties of Yb3+-doped glasses," Phys. Rev. B 52, 15889-15897, (1995). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. Lett.

E. Nakazawa and S. Shionoya, "Cooperative luminescence in YbPO4," Phys. Rev. Lett. 25, 1710-17121970. [CrossRef]

Proc. SPIE

J. Nilsson, J. K. Sahu, Y. Jeong, A. Clarkson, R. Selvas, A. B. Grudinin, and A. Shaif-Ul, "High power fiber lasers," Proc. SPIE 4974, 50-592003. [CrossRef]

Quantum Electron.

M. A. Mel’kumov, I. A. Bufetov, K. S. Kravtsov, A. B. Shubin, and E. M. Dianov, "Lasing parameters of ytterbium-doped fibres doped with P2O5 and Al2O3," Quantum Electron. 34, 843-848 (2004). [CrossRef]

Quantum. Electron.

A. S. Kurkov and E. M. Dianov, "Moderate-power cw fibre lasers," Quantum. Electron. 34, 881-900 (2004). [CrossRef]

Other

T. G. Ryan and S. D. Jackson, "Cooperative luminescence and absorption in ytterbium doped aluminosilicate glass optical fibres and performs," Conference Digest (30-th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, 4-8 July 2005, Star City, Sydney, Australia).
M. J. F. Digonnet, Rare Earth Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers (Marcel Dekker, 1993).
E. Desurvire, Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers. Principles and Applications (Wiley, 1994).

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