Pumping dynamics in Yb:Er phosphate glasses

17 June 1993

proceedings article
Published by SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng

p. 2-7
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.146880

Abstract

Transient changes of erbium ion level populations in Yb:Er:phosphate glass caused by flashlamp or Nd:glass laser excitation were measured. Dependence of laser pumping efficiency on laser pulse duration was studied for two samples with different Er³⁺ ion concentrations. Diffusion bottleneck due to low erbium concentration is shown to influence considerably the Yb-Er sensitization process.

Keywords

OPTICAL PUMPING
DIFFUSION
LASERS
YTTERBIUM
ERBIUM

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