Spectroscopy of Ho3+-doped fluoride glasses for green double-clad fiber lasers

Esrom Kifle; Pavel Loiko; Thiphaine Rault; Thibaud Berthelot; Solenn Cozic; Franck Joulain; Thierry Georges; Dragan Stojcevski; Florent Starecki; Damien Deubel; Alain Braud; Jean-Louis Doualan; Patrice Camy

doi:10.1117/12.2619178

25 May 2022 Spectroscopy of Ho³⁺-doped fluoride glasses for green double-clad fiber lasers

Esrom Kifle, Pavel Loiko, Thiphaine Rault, Thibaud Berthelot, Solenn Cozic, Franck Joulain, Thierry Georges, Dragan Stojcevski, Florent Starecki, Damien Deubel, Alain Braud, Jean-Louis Doualan, Patrice Camy

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Proceedings Volume 12142, Fiber Lasers and Glass Photonics: Materials through Applications III; 121420I (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2619178
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2022, Strasbourg, France

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Holmium ions (Ho³⁺) are attractive for generation of green emission according to the ⁵F₄+ ⁵S₂ → ⁵ I₈ transition. We report on the assessment of the potential of Ho³⁺ -doped fluoride glasses for green fiber lasers exploiting the double-clad fiber geometry. ZBLAN glasses doped with HoF3 (0.1 – 0.9 mol%) were studied. The absorption cross-section for the ⁵ I₈ → ⁵F₁+ ⁵G₆ transition is 1.75×10^-20 cm² at 448.5 nm. Under excitation in the blue, the glasses exhibit intense green luminescence. The stimulated-emission cross-section for the ⁵F₄+ ⁵S₂ → ⁵ I₈ transition is 0.67×10^-20 cm² at 549 nm. With increasing the HoF₃ doping level, the luminescence lifetime of the ⁵F₄+ ⁵S₂ states slowly decreases in the range of 291 – 180 μs. The output performance of a diode-pumped green Ho fiber laser was simulated for a fiber geometry with a double D-shaped inner cladding. The variable parameters were the HoF3 doping level, the fiber length, and the output coupling. It is shown that the generation of watt-level green output from such a laser is possible when using relatively short (<1 m) fibers with low doping levels (about 0.5 mol% HoF₃), as well as high transmissions of the output coupler (<60%, depending on the passive losses in the fiber).

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Esrom Kifle, Pavel Loiko, Thiphaine Rault, Thibaud Berthelot, Solenn Cozic, Franck Joulain, Thierry Georges, Dragan Stojcevski, Florent Starecki, Damien Deubel, Alain Braud, Jean-Louis Doualan, and Patrice Camy "Spectroscopy of Ho³⁺-doped fluoride glasses for green double-clad fiber lasers", Proc. SPIE 12142, Fiber Lasers and Glass Photonics: Materials through Applications III, 121420I (25 May 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2619178

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