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Pump-induced nonlinear refractive-index change in erbium- and ytterbium-doped fibers: theory and experiment

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A 980-nm pump-induced nonlinear refractive-index (n2) change in erbium-doped (20-m) and ytterbium-doped (20-m) fibers has been measured at 1064nm by time-delayed photorefractive beam coupling in a copropagating and counterpropagating geometry. It was found that n2 decreases at the wavelength of the probe beam when the pump beam is present. We present a semiclassical theory based on a four-state system that accounts for the pump-induced change of n2. Both theoretical and experimental results show that a significant index change, of the order of 10%, can be obtained for cw pump powers as small as 10mW.

© 2005 Optical Society of America

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