HIGHLY NONLINEAR NEAR-RESONANT PHOTODARKENING IN A THULIUM-DOPED ALUMINOSILICATE GLASS-FIBER

被引:95
作者
BROER, MM
KROL, DM
DIGIOVANNI, DJ
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[1] AT and T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
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10.1364/OL.18.000799
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Permanent photoinduced optical attenuation has been observed in Tm3+-doped aluminosilicate glass fibers on exposure to near-resonance mode-locked 1064-nm radiation at 300 K. The rate of this darkening was observed to follow a 4.7 +/- 0.4 power dependence on the 1064-nm intensity. The result shows that absorption of infrared light of moderate intensity can lead to photoionization in rare-earth-doped glass, provided that a multiphoton stepwise excitation channel exists.
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