Optical Amplification at 1.3 μm in a Praseodymium-Doped Sulfide-Glass Fiber |
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Authors: | Hiromasa Tawarayama Etsuko Ishikawa Kenji Yamanaka Katsuhisa Itoh Keiko Okada Hiroshi Aoki Hiroaki Yanagita Yoshihiko Matsuoka Hisayoshi Toratani |
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Affiliation: | Research and Development Center, HOYA Corporation, Tokyo 196–8510, Japan |
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Abstract: | Praseodymium-doped glasses were prepared in the Ga-Na-S (GNS) system and their optical properties were studied. A single-mode fiber with an attenuation loss of 1.2 dB/m at a wavelength of 1.31 μm was fabricated using an extrusion method, and the amplification characteristics were measured in the bidirectional pumping configuration. We demonstrated a gain coefficient of 0.81 dB/mW at a wavelength of 1.34 μm, which is the highest we have ever reported, and achieved a net gain of 32 dB for a pump power of 90 mW. Highly efficient optical amplification at a wavelength of 1.3 μm was demonstrated in the praseodymium-doped GNS fiber. |
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Keywords: | fiber glass optical materials/properties |
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