E. M. Dianov, S. V. Firstov, V. F. Khopin, A. N. Gur'yanov, I. A. Bufetov, “Bi-doped fibre lasers and amplifiers emitting in a spectral region of 1.3 μm”, Kvantovaya Elektronika, 2008, Volume 38, Number 7,Pages <nobr>615

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Bi-doped fibre lasers and amplifiers emitting in a spectral region of 1.3 μm

E. M. Dianov^a, S. V. Firstov^a, V. F. Khopin^b, A. N. Gur'yanov^b, I. A. Bufetov^a

^a Fiber Optics Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
^b Institute of Chemistry of High-Purity Substances RAS, Nizhnii Novgorod

Abstract: A bismuth-doped fibre laser emitting at wavelengths within the second transparency window of silica fibres is fabricated. It is shown that Bi-doped aluminium-free phosphogermanosilicate fibres pumped in the regions of 800 and 1200 nm have the amplification band at 1275 — 1375 nm.

PACS: 42.55.Wd, 42.60.Lh, 42.79.Sz

Received: 03.06.2008