Absorption and multi-phonon quenching in nanocrystal doped SiO2 fibers

verfasst von
Michael Steinke, Simon Spelthann, Axel Rühl, Detlev Ristau
Abstract

SiO

2 fibers doped with rare-earth-doped nanocrystals are promising to overcome the strong SiO

2 multi-phonon quenching and could yield novel laser gain materials. So far, no attention has been paid to the question how well the nanocrystals can suppress the quenching depending on the properties of the SiO

2 host glass. Here, a novel analytical model was applied to study the impact of the glass purity and composition on the quenching efficiency. Only a few experimentally accessible material and design parameters are required to compute the average quenching rate inside the nanocrystals. It is demonstrated that sufficiently low levels of quenching can only be expected for SiO

2 free of impurities or dopants that increase the multi-phonon absorption. This indicates that high-purity aluminosilicate glasses, in contrast to phosphosilicate and borosilicate glasses, are ideal hosts.

Organisationseinheit(en)
Institut für Quantenoptik
QUEST Leibniz Forschungsschule
PhoenixD: Simulation, Fabrikation und Anwendung optischer Systeme
QuantumFrontiers
Externe Organisation(en)
Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH)
Typ
Artikel
Journal
Optical materials express
Band
11
Seiten
1631-1642
Anzahl der Seiten
12
ISSN
2159-3930
Publikationsdatum
06.2021
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Elektronische, optische und magnetische Materialien
Elektronische Version(en)
https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.424116 (Zugang: Offen)