Expansion of Fiber Laser Wavelengths over 5 Microns

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In this review we present the results of the interdisciplinary RFBR project N18-29-20079. The project was aimed on the creation of room-temperature bulk and fiber chalcogenide glass lasers operating at wavelengths exceeding 4 μm. Before this investigation this wavelength range was inaccessible for glass lasers. Record purity Pr3+, Tb3+, Ce3+ and Nd3+ doped chalcogenide glass samples were synthesized. The analysis of their luminescent properties has made it possible to choose the promising laser transitions and the ways of their optical pumping. Lasing has been demonstrated on a number of 4.5–6 μm optical transitions of Ce3+, Pr3+ and Tb3+ ions. Previously all these transitions were never used in lasers. In a bulk sample of cerium-doped selenide glass, an output energy of up to 43 mJ per pulse and tuning in the 4.5–5.6 µm spectral range were obtained. In a continuously pumped composite optical fiber with terbium-doped selenide core in an undoped sulfide cladding 100 mW output power at ~ 5.25 µm was obtained.

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Alexander P. Velmuzhov

G.G. Devyatykh Institute of Chemistry of High-Purity Substances, RAS

Author for correspondence.
Email: velmuzhov@ihps-nnov.ru
Russian Federation, 49 Tropinin Str., Nizhny Novgorod, 603951, Russia

Boris I. Galagan

Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS

Email: galagan@ran.gpi.ru
Russian Federation, 38 Vavilov Str., Moscow, 119991, Russia

Boris I. Denker

Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS

Email: denker@lst.gpi.ru

Professor

Russian Federation, 38 Vavilov Str., Moscow, 119991, Russia

Vasily V. Koltashev

Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS,
Dianov Fiber Optics Research Center, RAS

Email: kvv@fo.gpi.ru
Russian Federation, 38 Vavilova Str., Moscow, 119333, Russia

Sergei E. Sverchkov

Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS

Email: glasser@lst.gpi.ru
Russian Federation, 38 Vavilova Str., Moscow, 119333, Russia

Gennady E. Snopatin

G.G. Devyatykh Institute of Chemistry of High-Purity Substances, RAS

Email: snopatin@ihps-nnov.ru
Russian Federation, 49 Tropinin Str., Nizhny Novgorod, 603951, Russia

Maksim V. Sukhanov

G.G. Devyatykh Institute of Chemistry of High-Purity Substances, RAS

Email: sukhanov@ihps-nnov.ru
49 Tropinin Str., Nizhny Novgorod, 603951, Russia

Victor G. Plotnichenko

Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS

Email: v.plotnichenko@gmail.com

Professor

Russian Federation, 38 Vavilova Str., Moscow, 119333, Russia

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Copyright (c) 2023 Velmuzhov A.P., Galagan B.I., Denker B.I., Koltashev V.V., Sverchkov S.E., Snopatin G.E., Sukhanov M.V., Plotnichenko V.G.

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