The fabrication of Tm/Al-doped silica preforms by an improved MCVD method with metal chelate precursors is discussed. Two fabrication techniques are employed, namely; simultaneous soot-dopant deposition (or standard MCVD) and stepwise soot-dopant deposition. The preforms are characterized by refractive index profiler and EPMA. The results show that the stepwise soot-dopant technique has a higher incorporation of Al2O3 and Tm2O3 as compared to the simultaneous soot-dopant method. This is due to the drawbacks of our chelate delivery system such as the temperature gradient and flow design. For the stepwise technique, the measured index difference of the preform is 0.006 with 0.8 wt% (maximum) Tm incorporated in the core.Index Terms-MCVD; metal chelate; rare earth doped silica; EPMA; refractive index
We report on a splice-free erbium-doped all-fiber laser emitting over 20 W at a wavelength of 1610 nm, with a slope efficiency of 19.6 % and an overall efficiency of 18.3% with respect to the launched pump power at 976 nm. The simple cavity design takes advantage of fiber Bragg gratings written directly in the gain fiber through the polymer coating and clad-pumping from a single commercial pump diode to largely simplify the assembling process, making this cavity ideal for large-scale commercial deployment. Two single-mode and singly erbium-doped silica fibers were fabricated in-house: the first to assess the effects of a high erbium concentration (0.36 mol.% ErO), yielding a low efficiency of 2.5 % with respect to launched pump power, and the second to achieve the improved result mentioned above (0.03 mol.% ErO). Numerical simulations show the link between the performance of each cavity and ion pair-induced quenching.
Development of rare earth doped silica fibre fabrication using MCVD furnace chelate vapor phase delivery is presented. In this study, erbium and aluminium is used as the dopant with precursor erbium (III) tris (2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-3,5-heptanedionate) and aluminium chloride respectively. The preform was designed for 10 layers of SiO2-P2O3doped silica (clad structure) and 5 layers of SiO2-Al2O3-Er2O3(core structure). Preform is analysed for the properties of layer structure i.e. refractive index profile using preform index profiler and EPMA (SEM-EDX) for dopant distribution. Results show good longitudinal uniformity despite condensation of metal organic precursor during the fabrication process. Maximum incorporation of Er2O3is about 0.1 mole % with 1.5 mole% of Al2O3in the core.
using standard MCVD with solution doping technique. The maximum concentrations of dopants that could be incorporated into silica were found to be 1.4 and 3.0 mol% for barium oxide and gallium oxide, respectively. At these concentrations, the final preforms showed reduced transparency in the core region indicating phase separation. Both of these dopants behavior in silica was discussed and compared with aluminum oxide being the typical dopant used in rare earth doped-silica fibers. The alumina-doped preform was observed to show opacity in the core region when the concentration of aluminum oxide was 10 mol%.
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