Erbium emission properties in nanostructured fibers

Wilfried Blanc (1) , Bernard Dussardier (1) , Gérard Monnom (1) , Romain Peretti (2) , Anne-Marie Jurdyc (2) , Bernard Jacquier (2) , Marie Foret (3) , Ann Roberts (4)

1 LPMC - Laboratoire de physique de la matière condensée
2 LPCML - Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie des Matériaux Luminescents
3 LCVN - Laboratoire des colloïdes, verres et nanomatériaux
4 School of Physics [Melbourne]

A new route was recently proposed to modify some spectroscopic properties of rare-earth ions in silica-based fibers. We had shown the incorporation of erbium ions in amorphous dielectric nanoparticles, grown in fiber preforms. Here we present the achieved stabilization of nanometric erbium-doped dielectric nanoparticles within the core of silica fibers. We present the nanoparticle dimensional characterization in fiber samples. We also show the spectroscopic characterization of erbium in preform samples with similar nanoparticle size and composition. This new route could have important potentials in improving rare-earth-doped fiber amplifiers and laser sources.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Wilfried Blanc, Bernard Dussardier, Gérard Monnom, Romain Peretti, Anne-Marie Jurdyc, et al.. Erbium emission properties in nanostructured fibers. Applied optics, 2009, 48 (31), pp.G119-G124. ⟨10.1364/AO.48.00G119⟩. ⟨hal-00429699⟩