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Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Experimental determination of the energy-transfer parameters for homogeneous upconversion in Er-doped silica

Dmitry Khoptyar, B. Jaskorzyńska

Published Oct 1, 2005• 18 citations
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Abstract

Applying a nonlinear spectroscopic technique, we accurately monitor the dynamics of the homogeneous upconversion (HUC) in Er-doped fibers. We provide the first experimental confirmation, to our knowledge, of the earlier theoretical predictions that, for low erbium concentrations, a decay of HUC-influenced excitation probability of Er ions can be well approximated by the formula describing the static HUC. By correlating the experimentally obtained HUC dynamics with the results of our analytical model in a wide range of Er concentrations, we accurately estimate energy-transfer parameters for Er-doped silica glass and experimentally assess the validity of the model.

DOI
10.1364/josab.22.002091

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We report a new analytical method to evaluate the accuracy of a statistical model of the migration assisted upconversion in Er-doped fibres. Unlike the mean-field approach to the excitation back transfer which was used in a previous statistical model, we use a new approximation accounting for the variance of population of the first excited level. Such an approach presents more realistic physical description of the excitation – emission processes in heavily-doped Er-based fibres. Implementing these results, we find that the accuracy of upconversion rate calculations is within 13% if the concentration of erbium ions is smaller than the critical one.