Possibilities of laser amplification and measurement of the field structure of ultrashort pulses in the range of 2.7-3 mu m in tellurite glass fibres doped with erbium ions

摘要

The amplification of ultrashort signals in the range 2.7-3 mu m in active tellurite glass fibres with high Kerr nonlinearity and high concentration of erbium ions in the core is theoretically investigated under diode pumping at a wavelength of 0.975 mu m. The possibility of producing pulses with the energy similar to 10 nJ and the duration smaller than 100 fs with similar to 20 dB gain is shown. Moreover, using a specially developed iterative computer algorithm, the possibility of determining the intensity and phase of the generated pulses by measuring their fundamental spectra and two additional spectra obtained by means of nonlinear-optical conversion in short pieces of these optical fibres is demonstrated. Optical fibre samples are made of high-purity TeO2-ZnO-La2O3-Na2O glasses with 10(21) cm(-3) concentration of erbium ions in the core and a low content of hydroxyl groups that causes small losses in the spectral range under consideration. The group velocity dispersions, effective mode fields, nonlinear coefficients and field overlap integrals of the LP01 fundamental modes with a doped core for optical fibres with different core diameters are calculated, and the emission and absorption cross sections are calculated basing on the experimental luminescence spectrum. The optimal parameters of the amplifier are determined by numerically modelling the dynamics of ultrashort pulses using the measured and calculated characteristics.