Gallium lanthanum sulphide based glasses are proposed as high quality hosts for rare-earth doped, mid-infrared fibre lasers, that would offer compact and rugged sources for gas sensing, atmospheric transmission, and medical applications. The infrared emission spectroscopy of erbium doped glasses and fibres shows the potential of this glass host for the above applications. Mid-infrared transitio...

In this paper, a 50 Km remote and switchable fiber optic sensing system based on an erbium doped fiber ring laser is proposed. The system allows the integration of different interrogation methods based on the detection of wavelength or amplitude variations of the laser. This integration is carried out by sequentially activating different ring cavities by using an optical switch. With this schem...

A dual-wavelength erbium fiber laser with single-longitudinal-mode characteristic is proposed and demonstrated. The system uses a 7-m-long highly doped erbium-doped fiber as the primary gain medium while two fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) act as a wavelength selection mechanism. The sensing capability of the FBGs gives this source the possibility to be also used in a dual-sensor multiplexing schem...

A novel wavelength-switchable single-longitudinal-mode (SLM) dual-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) implemented based on a sigma architecture that is composed of a ring loop and a linear standing wave arm is experimentally demonstrated. Gain competition that prevents stable dual-wavelength oscillation is effectively suppressed by placing the gain medium in the standing-wave arm and by ...

Amorphous silicon film (α-Si) doped with uniform erbium (Er) impurities is deposited by laser ablation technology. High density silicon nanocrystals (nc-Si) can be formed after the rapid thermal annealing (RTA) process. The crystalline process can be explained as the “metal-induced nanocrystalline mechanism”, i.e., doped erbium atoms introduce additional strain in the amorphous silicon matrix a...

We report a 40-GHz harmonically and regeneratively FM mode-locked erbium fiber laser with a phase-locked loop (PLL) circuit operating in the 1.6 m region. The oscillation wavelength was extended to the L-band by using a 15 m erbium-doped fiber with an Er concentration of 3500 ppm as a gain medium. As a result, a 770 fs transform-limited Gaussian pulse with a 14 mW output power was successfully...

Microcavity lasers based on erbium-doped lithium niobate insulator (LNOI), which are key devices for LNOI integrated photonics, have attracted much attention recently. In this Letter, we report the realization of a C-band single-mode laser using Vernier effect in two coupled Erbium-doped microrings with different radii under pump 980-nm continuous laser. The laser, operating stably over large r...

Erbium doped bismuth borosilicate (BBS) glasses, possessing the broadest 1.55 μm near infrared (NIR) emission band among oxide glasses, stand out as excellent fiber material for optical fiber amplifiers. In this work, we demonstrate that both broadened and enhanced NIR emission of Er(3+) can be obtained by sensibly combining the effects such as mixed glass former effect, phonon-assisted energy ...

Also the optical fiber amplifiers FAs that amplify weak signals such as the. Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, Michael J.F.Chapter 2. Optical and Electronic Properties of Rare Earth Ions in Glasses William J Miniscalco Abstract-HiRes PDF 2316 KB-PDF wlinks 2330 KB.amplifier materials in the system of rare-earth doped glasses are presented. rare-earth-doped ram concept manual pdf fib...