Photodarkening kinetics in a high-power YDFA versus CW or short-pulse seed conditions

Alain Jolly; Cyril Vinçont; Johan Boullet

doi:10.1117/12.2250801

22 February 2017 Photodarkening kinetics in a high-power YDFA versus CW or short-pulse seed conditions

Alain Jolly, Cyril Vinçont, Johan Boullet

Proceedings Volume 10083, Fiber Lasers XIV: Technology and Systems; 100831T (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2250801
Event: SPIE LASE, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We propose an innovating model to describe the kinetics of competing photo-darkening and photo-bleaching phenomena in high-power, Ytterbium-Doped-Fibre-Amplifiers. This model makes use of aggregated species of trivalent Ytterbium and divalent ions, which operate as primarily efficient color-centers. This ensures multi-photon excitation, partly from the pump and partly from the signal. The fit of numerical computations with dedicated experiments help to validate our theoretical assumptions, in the definition of the involved physics. Potential applications of this study include further discussions for the selection of processing options with fibre-manufacturers and the optimization of operating conditions.

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Alain Jolly, Cyril Vinçont, and Johan Boullet "Photodarkening kinetics in a high-power YDFA versus CW or short-pulse seed conditions", Proc. SPIE 10083, Fiber Lasers XIV: Technology and Systems, 100831T (22 February 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2250801

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