摘要:
A laser amplifier and/or oscillator comprise a gain medium including rare earth dopant in a host medium. Ions of the rare earth dopant has an energy level structure including a ground level and a pair of laser upper level and laser lower levels between which a stimulated transition is to be produced after production of a population inversion between the pair of laser upper and laser lower levels. A first exciting light source is coupled to the gain medium for introducing first exciting light to said gain medium to produce said population inversion. A second exciting light source is coupled to the gain medium for introducing second exciting light source to the gain medium to raise the rare earth dopant ions from the ground level to the laser lower level.
摘要:
The invention describes a laser capable of continuous wave operation at visible wavelengths. A diode laser lasing in the 340 to 640 nm wavelength range is used to pump a suitably doped solid state material within an optical cavity, which then emits visible light. Suitable solid state materials include ionic solids which are doped with rare earth ions. The solid state laser may be end-pumped or side-pumped.
摘要:
The invention is based on the discovery that under certain conditions lasing at room temperature can be achieved in a Pr3+-doped fluorozirconate fibre pumped in the infrared at 1.01νm and 835nm, the lasing taking place in the blue (491nm), green (520nm), orange (605nm) and red (635nm and 715nm). One laser comprises a length of Pr3+-doped potical waveguide such as a fibre, and means for exciting the Pr3+ ions to an energy level in the band (3P2, 1I6, 3P1, 3P0), in which the Pr3+ concentration is in the range substantially 50 ppm to substantially 10,000 ppm (by weight). The Pr3+ concentration is preferably in the range substantially 200 ppm to substantially 2,000 ppm (by weight). The optical fibre is preferably a fluorozirconate fibre doped at the foregoing concentrations with Pr3+ ions. The fibre preferably comprises a doped core clad with a further glass. The excitation means is preferably arranged to excite the Pr3+ ions from the 3H4 level, and this is preferably achieved by upconversion by way of the 1G4 level, but excitation may be achieved by transfer of energy from a co-dopant.
摘要:
An optically active device comprising an optical fiber (10), a light source (12) and an optical device (13) is disclosed. The optical fiber (10) comprises a core made of an optical functioning glass doped with Pr 3+ as an active ion and transmits light at a first wavelength. The light source (12) generates excitation light at a second wavelength shorter than the first wavelength. The optical device (13) directs the excitation light from the light source (12) into the optical fiber (10). Then, Pr 3+ in the core of the optical fiber (10) is stimulated to emit light at the second wavelength. As a result, an optical function such as optical amplification can be effected at the second wavelength.
摘要:
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, an apparatus, and a system for amplifying a burst optical signal. The method includes: monitoring an input status of a signal light; when no signal light is input, controlling output power of a pump light so that a gain medium has output optical power and the output optical power is less than a maximum optical power that the gain medium is capable of outputting when a signal light is input; inputting the pump light into a wavelength division multiplexer so that the wavelength division multiplexer combines the signal light and the pump light and inputs the combined light into the gain medium. With the preceding manners, when no signal light is input, the power of the pump light is controlled, which increases a transient response speed of an optical amplifier, avoids a surge, mitigate a problem of a low startup of the optical amplifier, and implements fidelity of the burst optical signal in the amplification process.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a solid state laser device with a solid state gain medium between two resonator end mirrors (3, 5) and a GaN-based pump laser (1) arranged to optically pump the solid state gain medium. The solid state gain medium is a Pr 3+ -doped crystalline or polycrystalline host material (4) which has a cubic crystalline structure and highest phonon energies of ≤ 600 cm -1 and provides a band gap of ≥ 5,5 eV. The proposed solid state laser can be designed to emit at several visible wavelengths with the emitted power showing a reduced dependence on the temperature of the GaN-based pump laser (1).
摘要:
An optical fiber used for an optical amplifier, which is formed by doping glass with rare-earth ions. Both praseodymium ions (Pr ) and erbium ions (Er ) are used as the rare-earth ions, and the glass is a fluoride glass or a sulfide glass. The optical fiber can be used at both wavelengths of 1.3 mu m and 1.55 mu m. The light amplification efficiency of an optical amplifier made of the optical fiber can be improved compared to an optical amplifier formed of only Pr or only Er .