Er,Yb: Glass laser glass for eye-safe laser of 1540nm or 1.5µm to 1.6µm
As an eye-safe
wavelength laser, 1540um, Er3+/Yb3+ co-doped phosphate glass lasers have attracted much attention for their compactness and low cost, such as laser generation
and signal amplification because the wavelength of 1540nm is just at the
position of the eye-safe and the fiber optic communication window. 1540nm
lasers have used in ranging finder, radar, target recognition. Er3+/Yb3+
co-doped phosphate glass cooperate with passive Q-Switch crystal -co:spinel to
get 1540nm pulse solid-state laser.
Er3+ emission
transition occurs within this wavelength range corresponding to the 4I13/2
→4I15/2. However, Er3+ absorption itself is too weak to allow direct pumping and
so, energy transfers are required. The most efficient
ones are given by Yb3+ ions under absorption from the 2F7/2 → 2F5/2 transition,
followed by energy transfer to the 4I11/2 Er3+ level and fast nonradiative
transition to the Er3+ 4I13/2 level
which emits the expected fluorescence.Er,Yb:glass
laser with radiation output at the wavelength of 1540 nm does not require the
addition of additional components.
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