422 research outputs found

    Spectroscopy of yttria-alumina-silica glass doped with thulium and erbium

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    Yttria-alumina-silica (YAS) glasses doped with Er3+ and Tm3+ have been examined spectroscopically for their prospect as fibre amplifier gain media for optical telecommunication systems. Absorption and emission spectra, as well as emission lifetime measurements and Judd-Ofelt calculations are reported. Tm3+:YAS glass has a emission bandwidth of 122nm around 1470nm, making it promising for S+ band amplification

    Spectroscopy of Tm<sup>3+</sup>-doped yttrium-aluminosilicate glass

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    Research into Tm3+-doped glasses as gain media for optical amplifiers in the telecommunications S-band has been focused on glasses with low phonon energy like tellurite and fluoride glasses, because the high phonon energy of silicate glasses precludes emission around 1470nm. Glasses in the Y2O3 - Al2O3 - SiO2 (YAS) system have, despite their silica content, a maximum phonon energy of about 950cm-1, as well as good transparency and thermal stability. We report preliminary spectroscopy on Tm3+:YAS glass which highlights their potential as S-band amplifier gain media

    Konradus Jander. Oratorum et rhetor um graecorum fragmenta nuper reperta

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    Puech Aimé. Konradus Jander. Oratorum et rhetor um graecorum fragmenta nuper reperta. In: Revue des Études Grecques, tome 27, fascicule 123-124,1914. p. 343

    Efficient Er:YAG lased pumped in-band by an Er/Yb fibre laser

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    Solid-state lasers operating in the eye-safe wavelength regime around ~1.5-2.1 µm regime have numerous applications. In many of these applications the requirement for high- power is also accompanied by the need for high efficiency and good beam quality, which are often difficult to achieve in conventional solid-state lasers due to the detrimental effects of thermal loading. Recently, there has been dramatic progress in scaling output power from cladding-pumped Er/Yb and Tm doped silica fibre lasers operating in the 1.53-1.62 µm and 1.85-2.1 µm regime respectively. Fibre lasers offer the attraction of relatively simple thermal management and hence a high degree of immunity to thermal effects, but suffer from the drawback that, in pulsed mode, energies are limited by amplified spontaneous emission and by damage to the fibre end facets. An alternative approach which circumvents this problem is to use employ a hybrid laser approach where the cladding-pumped fibre laser is used to 'in-band' pump a bulk solid-state laser. This has the attraction of very low quantum defect heating in the bulk crystal and hence relatively weak thermal effects. In recent work, efficient operation of Er:YAG [1] and Ho:YAG [2] lasers, end-pumped by cladding-pumped Er/Yb and Tm fibre lasers respectively, has been demonstrated. cont'

    High power Er:YAG laser at 1646nm pumped by an Er/Yb fibre laser

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    Solid-state lasers operating in the eye-safe wavelength regime around ~1.5-2.1 µm regime have numerous applications. For many applications, the requirement for high power is accompanied by the need for high efficiency and good beam quality, which are difficult to achieve in conventional solid- state lasers because of thermal effects. Fibre lasers are less affected by thermal effects, but pulse energies are limited by amplified spontaneous emission and by damage to the fibre end facets. An alternative approach which circumvents this problem is to use a hybrid laser where a fibre laser is used to 'in-band' pump a bulk solid-state laser. In this paper we describe an Er:YAG laser pumped by a tunable, cladding-pumped Er/Yb fibre laser and discuss factors affecting the laser performance. Five crystals with Er-concentrations in the range 0.25% to 4 at% and with crystal lengths selected for ~95% absorption of the pump light at 1532nm were used, and the laser performance was investigated for a range of output coupler transmissions (2-30%) at 1646nm. In preliminary experiments we have achieved a maximum output power of 4W at 1646nm for 11W of absorbed pump power corresponding to an efficiency of 36%, using a crystal with 0.5 at% Er-concentration and an output coupler transmission of 10%. Our experiments have revealed that the cw efficiency decreases quite markedly for higher Er-concentrations. The origin this behaviour is the subject of further investigation and our findings will be presented. The prospects for further increase in output power and efficiency will also be discussed

    High power and ultra efficient operation of 1645 nm Er:YAG laser pumped by a 100W tunable Er/Yb fiber laser

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    An Er:YAG laser, end-pumped by a cladding-pumped 100W tunable Er,Yb fiber laser, has yielded 60W of continuous-wave output at 1645nm at room-temperature for 82W of incident pump power at 1532nm. The corresponding slope efficiency was 80.7%

    Crystallisation effects on rare earth dopants in oxyfluoride glass ceramics

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    Transparent oxyfluoride glass-ceramic materials are of significant interest for the production of new optoelectronic devices. In this paper we report measurements of the detailed spectroscopy of rare earth dopants in both an oxyfluoride transparent glass ceramic and its glass precursor. We show that several spectroscopically different sites exist for the rare earth even in the glass precursor material, where a significant amount of the rare earth is already coordinated with fluorine. In the glass-ceramic material, these glassy fluorine-coordinated sites are replaced with crystalline sites, but a significant fraction of the rare earth ions are still within the glass phase. The fraction of rare earth ion that is incorporated into the crystalline phase is estimated from the rare earth spectroscopy, and the role of the rare earth coordination in the precursor glass is discussed

    Ressenyes

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    Index de les obres ressenyades: L. JANDER ; W. SCHRAMKE ; H. WENZEL, J., Metzler handbuch fuer den Geographieunterricht. Ein Leitfaden fuer Praxis und Ausbildung. L. JANDER ; W. SCHRAMKE ; H. J. WENZEL, Stichworte und Essays und Essays zur Didaktik der Geographi

    High power cladding-pumped tunable Er, Yb-doped fibre laser

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    Efficient high-power operation of a tunable erbium-ytterbium codoped fibre laser end-pumped by two beam-shaped diode-stacks at 940 nm is reported. A maximum output power of 30 W at 1570 nm for 83 W of absorbed pump power with operating wavelength tunable from 1562 to 1627 nm was demonstrated

    Fig. 2 in Susceptibility of Chrysoperla externa (Hagen, 1861) (Neuroptera: Crysopidae) to insecticides used in coffee crops

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    Fig. 2 Number of males and females (SE) of Chrysoperla externa adults from pupae exposed to insecticides (ns = the means do not differ from each other, df = 3, Χ2 = 0.093936, p&gt; 0.05)Published as part of &lt;i&gt;Souza, Jander Rodrigues, Moreira, Luciano Bastos, Lima, Lucas Lorenzon Resende, Silva, Túlio Guimarães, Braga, Pedro Paulo Malfitano &amp; Carvalho, Geraldo Andrade, 2020, Susceptibility of Chrysoperla externa (Hagen, 1861) (Neuroptera: Crysopidae) to insecticides used in coffee crops, pp. 1306-1314 in Ecotoxicology (London, England) 29 (9)&lt;/i&gt; on page 2009, DOI: 10.1007/s10646-020-02261-w, &lt;a href="http://zenodo.org/record/8431508"&gt;http://zenodo.org/record/8431508&lt;/a&gt
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