Photonics Research, 2017, 5 (6): 06000740, Published Online: Dec. 7, 2017
Bismuth-doped glass microsphere lasers Download: 593次
Abstract
In this work, a hybrid structure consisting of a multicomponent germanate glass microsphere containing bismuth as a gain medium is proposed and presented. The bismuth-doped germanate glass microspheres were fabricated from a glass fiber tip with no precipitation of the bismuth metal. Coupling with a fiber taper, the bismuth-doped microsphere single-mode laser was observed to lase at around 1305.8 nm using 808 nm excitation. The low threshold of absorbed pump power at 215 μW makes this microlaser appealing for various applications, including tunable lasers for a range of purposes in telecommunication, biomedical, and optical information processing.
Zaijin Fang, Síle Nic Chormaic, Shanyu Wang, Xin Wang, Jibo Yu, Yuxuan Jiang, Jianrong Qiu, Pengfei Wang. Bismuth-doped glass microsphere lasers[J]. Photonics Research, 2017, 5(6): 06000740.