Watt-Level Bi-Doped Fiber Lasers: Breakthrough into 1300 – 1500 nm Wavelength Region

Conference: ECOC 2009 - 35th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/20/2009 - 09/24/2009 at Vienna, Austria

Proceedings: ECOC 2009

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Bufetov, I. A.; Firstov, S. V.; Shubin, A. V.; Medvedkov, O. I.; Iskhakova, L. D.; Dianov, E. M. (Fiber Optics Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
Khopin, V. F.; Guryanov, A. N. (Institute of Chemistry of High Purity Substances of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)

Abstract:
Watt-level ~20% efficiency Bi fiber lasers have been demonstrated at 1340 and 1480 nm for the first time. Optical properties of Bi-doped phosphogermanosilicate fibers depending on core composition were investigated.