A diode laser (LD) clad-pumped narrow linewidth all-fiber Tm^3+-doped fiber laser is reported with a maximal output power of 27W at 1.947μm. By successively splicing an LD pigtail fiber, a single-mode Tm^3+-doped...
The CW 39.4 W all-fiber LD-clad-pumped Tm^3+-doped fiber laser output is reported with a slope efficiency of 34% in respect to the pump power. The all-fiber laser is made up by progressively splicing the pigtail fibe...
A laser diode (LD) cladding-pumped cw Tm^3+ -doped silica fibre amplifier is reported that provides up to 3 W output with the slope efficiency nearly 30%. The gain fibre is 27.5/400μm D-shaped Tm^3+ -doped silica...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under No 60471048, and the Shenzhen Science and Technology Bureau under Grant No 200617.
We report a thulium-doped silica fibre laser that generates a maximum cw output power of 6 W in a 2 μm wavelength range when cladding-pumped by a laser diode (LD) operating at approximately 791 nm at room temperatu...
A cladding-pumped Tm^3+-doped fibre laser is carried out to generate continuous-wave output power up to 8.4 W at approximately 2 μm with a slope efficiency of 57% compared to the launched pump power. When the fibre ...
Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province under Grant No Y104498, the Science and Technology Department of Zhejiang Province under Grant Nos 2005C31014 and 2006C21082.
Fluorescence of Tm^3+/Er^3+ codoped bismuth-silica (BS) glasses and the sensitization of Ce^3+ are investigated, It shows that Ce^3+ codoping with Tm^3+/Er^3+ in BS glasses results in a quenching of Tm^3+ ion...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 50472053, the Department of Science and Tcchnology of Guangdong under Grant Nos 04020036 and 2004A10602002, and thc Department of Science and Technology of Guangzhou (2004Z2-D0131).
We report the spectroscopic properties and thermal stability of Tm^3+-doped Ga2O3-GeO2-Bi2O3-PbO(PbF2) glasses for 1.47-μm optical amplifications. Effects of PbF2 doping on the optical properties and thermal stabi...