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Article

Mathematical Model of Photodarkening in Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber

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School of Physical Science and Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
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Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Optical Information, Ministry of Education, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
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Photonics 2022, 9(6), 370; https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics9060370
Submission received: 25 April 2022 / Revised: 20 May 2022 / Accepted: 23 May 2022 / Published: 25 May 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers)

Abstract

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In this paper, an improved mathematical model is proposed by taking the factors of high-energy photons and temperature into consideration, which is verified and explained by the experimental data in our experiments and other papers. By fitting and analyzing the experimental data, we can quantitatively determine the relationship between the pump power P λ and the photon frequency ν in the fiber core, the core area A and the temperature T of the fiber core and PD loss, and explain the mechanism of the PD phenomenon to a certain extent. We believe that the excitation of color centers by high-energy photons is the main reason for photodarkening. Furthermore, there is a positive correlation between the power of high-energy photons and the photodarkening rate, and the temperature is positively correlated with the saturated photodarkening absorption.

1. Introduction

In 1988, Millar et al. [1] first discovered the phenomenon of photodarkening (PD) in Tm-doped quartz fiber, and the effect of PD has attracted wide attention since. PD is an important problem in fiber lasers. The characteristic of PD is broadband absorption centered on the wavelength of visible light. The performance of PD is also related to the preparation method of active fiber [2,3,4,5,6,7]. The darkening is a process of continuous competition between PD and bleaching. PD is considered to be the relaxation process of a statistical ensemble of micro-optical centers (PD precursor). These micro-optical centers reversibly absorb the energy of high-energy photons and convert it into color centers (CCs), resulting in additional PD-induced loss [8]. CCs can lead to additional absorption of a wide spectrum centered on visible light, which reduces the power conversion efficiency of the fiber laser and generates excess heat in the fiber laser [9,10].
High-energy photons directly interact with the fiber through the photoelectric effect, Compton scattering and electron pair effect result in the ionization of electron–hole pairs in the fiber. When electron–hole pairs are captured by intrinsic defects, doping defects, impurity defects, and radiation-induced defects in fiber, a special point defect with an effective charge will be formed. This defect will combine electrons and holes, resulting in light absorption in the fiber. Because its absorption band usually falls within the visible light range, it is called the color center (CC) [11,12].
In 2018, Röpke et al. [13] present a stretched exponential model of PD-induced loss. In their model, the PD effect is treated as the relaxation process of the statistical ensemble of micro-optical centers (PD complexes). These micro-optical centers (PD complexes) are reversibly converted into CCs by the energy of pumping photons, resulting in measurable PD loss. The next year, S. Jetschke et al. [14] from the same institute further improved and verified the model. The PD parameters determined by fitting the measured curves with the stretched exponential function are linked to the activation and deactivation rates of micro-optic centers (PD complexes). They linked the variation of the PD rate and the equilibrium loss with pump power and inversion, and established a mathematical model. However, this led to problems. According to [15,16], many PD phenomena are not directly excited by the pump power, but are caused by CCs excited by high-energy photons which are formed by a series of upconversion processes through pump power. Even the undoped fiber can absorb X-rays and 200–220 nm ultraviolet rays and produce CCs [11]. Therefore, to a certain extent, the inversion is not directly related to the PD phenomenon, but related to the high-energy photons formed in the upconversion process induced by pump power.
In this paper, an improved mathematical model is proposed by taking the factors of high-energy photons and temperature into consideration, and a physical quantity σ is introduced by imitating the absorption and emission cross-sectional area in the laser energy level system. It is also verified and explained through some experimental results. In addition, fitting analysis shows that the PD rate is related to the high-energy photons generated by pump power upconversion, and it is proved that the temperature can significantly affect maximum additional loss. Finally, we describe the PD experiment of Tm-doped photonic crystal fiber, and further verify the fitting relationship between the maximum additional loss and temperature, providing the additional absorption spectrum caused by PD.

2. Photondarkening Mechanism

As we all know, high-energy photons will produce CCs in matrices such as quartz glass, which leads to absorption bands [15,16], and ultraviolet can also be used to inscribe fiber Bragg gratings [17]. Therefore, CCs will appear in the optical fiber by using an ultraviolet laser [18] or even an ultraviolet lamp [19,20]. The oxygen-deficient center (ODC) in the germanosilicate glass fiber will release free electrons when irradiated by a 240 nm light. The released free electrons are trapped near the GeO4 tetrahydrogen, forming a Ge (I) CC with an absorption peak at 280 nm and an absorption spectrum range extending to the near-infrared band, showing an obvious PD phenomenon [20]. In Yb-doped aluminosilicate glass, a charge transfer (CT) band appears near 230 nm and the conversion of Yb3+ ions from trivalent state to low valence state Yb2+ [4,19,21,22,23,24,25]. When stable Yb2+ is formed, free holes are generated and excited to a higher energy level CT state, which leads to the formation of CCs, resulting in additional losses at ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths [21,26,27]. Even undoped glass can absorb X-rays and 200–220 nm ultraviolet rays to produce CCs, which will greatly reduce the transmittance of the glass [11].
To sum up, we believe that when the laser works normally in an ordinary environment, the CC is generated by the interaction between high-energy (short-wavelength) photons and ions, atoms, or electrons in the crystal. This means that not all wavelengths leading to PD (especially long waves) are directly involved in the generation process of CCs, and the conversion process from low-energy photons to high-energy photons needs to be performed first. In addition, there are different ways of generating high-energy photons in a laser, mainly including excited-state absorption (ESA) [28], energy transfer upconversion (ETU) [29], avalanche upconversion [29], and cooperative luminescence [30,31,32].
Due to the complex energy level structure of Tm ions, Tm ions are very easy to up-convert the infrared pump light into blue and ultraviolet light [33,34]. The blue light was observed in Tm-doped fiber pumped by laser sources ranging from 1.06 to 1.14 µm [5,28,35,36,37], which is the 1G43H6 transition of Tm ions produced by three-photon absorption. Through avalanche upconversion and ETU, pumping with the wavelength of 790 nm can also produce blue light in Tm-doped fiber [29]. This conclusion is also confirmed in our experiment, which shows the spectrum of Tm-doped fiber pumped by laser at 793 nm in Figure 1. It is known that Tm ions with 1G4 level exhibit a strong absorption band at approximately 488 nm and Tm ions at 1G4 level can be excited to 1I63P0 levels by excited-state absorption (ESA), so as to upconvert 488 nm radiation to ultraviolet source [38].
Compared with the Tm ion, the energy level structure of the Yb ion is simple. ESA or the upconversion process cannot be used to explain the process of generating high-energy photons in Yb-doped fiber lasers. However, the evidence shows that there are trace Tm ions in Yb-doped fibers, which has a great influence on the PD generation process in Yb-doped fiber [39]. Under the condition of the high-power pump Yb-doped fiber with a wavelength of 977 nm, the cluster composed of three or four Yb ions can emit ultraviolet radiation. Through cooperative luminescence, 500 nm radiation is produced by the simultaneous de-excitation of two cluster ions emits [30]. In addition, some intrinsic defects in the fiber can also absorb the pump power and produce high-energy photons [7]. In the process of generating PD, the above processes are not independent and need to work together [40].

3. Model

Darkening is a process of continuous competition between PD and bleaching. In this paper, a semi-empirical formula for the PD and bleaching process is established by imitating a two-level laser system, as shown in Figure 2.
In Figure 2, N 0 ( t ) is the density of PD precursor that can produce CCs by photoionization. Take E′- centers ( S i · ), for example. E′- centers are generated in the following way [41,42]
S i O S i S i · + · O S i .
The S i O S i is the PD precursor that can form CC. The generation rate of the density of the CCs can be expressed as
d N c c d t = W P D N 0 ( t ) W B N c c ( t )
N 0 ( t ) + N c c ( t ) = N 0 ( 0 ) ,
where N c c ( t ) is the density of CCs varying with time t, and W P D and W B are the rate of PD and bleaching; therefore, we assume
W P D = P λ ( z ) φ ( r , ϕ ) A h ν σ N 0
W B = P λ ( z ) φ ( r , ϕ ) A h ν σ N c c + Q ( T ) ,
where P λ is the launched high-energy photon power in the core of the fiber. A is the core area. h is the Planck constant. ν is the photon frequency. φ ( r , ϕ ) is the normalized signal profile σ N 0 is the probability that the PD precursor of unit density is excited by one photon. σ N c c is the probability that CC of unit density is excited by one photon. Q ( T ) is the temperature-dependent thermal bleaching rate. Then, the density of CCs can be obtained by Formula (2)
N c c ( z , r , ϕ , T , t ) = 0 t d N c c d t d t = 0 t [ W P D N 0 ( t ) W B N c c ( t ) ] d t
It is assumed that the extra absorption caused by the CC is directly proportional to the density of the CCs, therefore we assume
α P D ( t ) = α λ N c c ( t ) ,
where a λ is the additional absorption coefficient at wavelength λ generated by the CC of unit density. α P D ( t ) can be obtained from the measurement of the PD loss experiment. α λ is measured by preparing a CC sample of known density. Q ( T ) can be obtained by a thermal bleaching experiment. σ N c c and σ N 0 can be obtained by bringing in Formulas (6) and (7) with the above parameters.
By using a stretched exponential formalism with time-dependent rate coefficients, Formula (1) describing the change in the density of the CC will be rewritten as [43,44]
d N c c d t = β t β 1 W P D β N 0 ( t ) κ t κ 1 W B κ N c c ( t )
where β and κ are the stretching parameters for photodarkening and photobleaching. The stretching parameter β and κ was found to depend on the fiber type. When the pump wavelength is far away from the wavelength where photobleaching can occur and the core temperature is not enough to produce thermal bleaching, bleaching can be ignored, and the formula can be rewritten as
d N c c d t = β t β 1 W P D β [ N c c , m a x ( T ) N c c ( t ) ] ,
where N c c , m a x ( T ) is the final equilibrium state of the density of the CCs related to the core temperature [7,45]. Temperature is used to describe the degree of thermal movement of microparticles, which has an important impact on the stability of PD precursors and CCs. Integrate Formula (9) to obtain the stretched exponential function,
N c c ( t ) = N c c , m a x ( T ) { 1 exp [ ( W P D t ) β ] }
Therefore, we can obtain the formula of additional absorption of PD through Formulas (7) and (10)
α P D ( t ) = α λ N c c , m a x ( T ) { 1 exp [ ( W P D t ) β ] } = α P D , m a x ( T ) { 1 exp [ ( W P D t ) β ] } ,
where α P D , m a x ( T ) is the maximum additional loss, W P D is the PD rate. It can be seen from the formula that the additional loss α P D ( t ) is the stretched exponential function of the maximum additional loss α P D , m a x ( T ) and the PD rate W P D .
If the specific value of N c c , m a x ( T ) and the curve of additional loss caused by photodarkening under a certain power with time can be provided, σ N 0 can be obtained through Equations (4) and (11). When σ N 0 is obtained, the time-dependent curve of additional loss caused by photodarkening at different power levels can be predicted by Formulas (4) and (11).

4. Data Simulation

We digitize the experimental data in other research papers about PD under different pump powers and use the above mathematical model for verification and interpretation.
In 2007, Koponen et al. [7] conducted PD rate measurement experiments using two different Yb-doped fibers. The length of the sample fiber is 0.1 m, the probe light wavelength is 633 nm, the pump light wavelength is 920 nm, and the maximum power is 10 W.
We digitize their experimental data, and convert the original transmission into additional loss (dB/m) at different pump powers, and fit it with Formula (11). As shown in Figure 3, the colorful lines are plotted with experimental data, while the black lines are plotted with fitting data.
Since a water-cooling device is used in the experimental device to control the core temperature and the data after loss saturation is not provided in the original paper, the maximum additional loss is set to a constant value. For optical Fiber #1, when the maximum additional loss α P D , m a x ( T ) is equal to 500 dB/m and stretching parameters β is equal to 0.512, the calculated PD rates W P D under different pump powers and coefficient of determination R2 are shown in Table 1.
For optical Fiber #2, when the maximum additional loss α P D , m a x ( T ) is equal to 350 dB/m and stretching parameters β is equal to 0.66, and the calculated PD rates and coefficient of determination R2 under different pump powers are shown in Table 2.
According to Formula (4), the W P D is positively proportional to the high-energy photon power P λ in the core. The logarithmic coordinate curve between the W P D and the pump power (920 nm) is shown in Figure 4, in which the discrete points are the experimental data and the straight lines are the fitting curve.
When the pump power is low, the linearity of the logarithmic relationship between W P D and P p u m p is poor, and the deviation between the experimental data and the fitting curve is large. When the pump power is high, the logarithmic relationship between them tends to be stable, and the linearity gradually appears. The analysis shows that when the power is low, the particle number distribution in the fiber is complex and various multiphoton processes will occur. When the power is high, the particle number distribution is gradually stable, and the energy transition channel is also stable. Therefore, we only fit the data obtained under the condition of the high-power pump (>3.2 W). The slope of the logarithm curve of W P D of Fiber #1 and Fiber #2 under higher P p u m p is 3.822 and 2.297. Since the W P D is directly proportional to the P λ participating in PD according to Formula (4), the P λ is directly proportional to the 3.822 and 2.297 powers of the P p u m p in Fiber #1 and #2, respectively. Therefore, the PD of Fiber #1 can be interpreted as a four-photon process. Figure 5 is a simplified diagram of Yb3+ and Tm3+ energy levels in fiber.
Because the concentration of Tm3+ in TDF is minimal and the absorption cross-sectional area of Yb3+ is large, almost all the energy of the pump is absorbed by Yb3+, and then the energy will be transferred to Tm3+ energy level, to form an upconversion transition channel. Under the pump laser with the wavelength of 920 nm, Yb3+ in the ground state is excited to the 2F5/2 level, and the energy is transferred to a nearby Tm3+ in the ground state through energy transfer to excite it to the 3H5 level. Because the lifetime of 3H5 level is very short, it will be transited to 3F4 level without radiation soon. Another Yb3+ in the excited state excites Tm3+ from 3F4 to 3F2 and 3F3 levels through energy transfer. Through repeating the above steps, Tm3+ is excited to a higher energy level [46].
For Fiber #2, the P λ in the core is approximately the square of P p u m p . Therefore, we assume that high-energy photons are generated by the frequency doubling of the pump laser.
In 1995, Laperle et al. [5] reported the photoinduced absorption of four different Tm-doped ZBLAN fibers under a 1.12 µm laser. They used a 1.12 µm Nd: YAG laser as the pump and a 488 nm argon-ion laser as the probe to monitor the evolution of PD. The small probe light (2 µW) mixed with noise such as pump and ASE is amplified and extracted by a lock-in amplifier. The parameters of four different ZBLAN fibers are shown in Table 3.
We also digitized their experimental data, and converted the original transmission into additional loss (dB/m) at different pump powers, and fitted it with Formula (11). As shown in Figure 6. The colorful lines are the plotted experimental data while the black lines are plotted by fitting data.
Because the fitting results of Fibers A–C show that no matter how the pump power varies, W P D is almost unchanged. Therefore, we speculate that the low doping concentration of thulium in Fibers A–C makes the upconversion of the 1.12 μm pump laser impossible to produce high-energy photons, leading to photodarkening. However, according to [4,47], a 488 nm laser can lead to photodarkening. Therefore, we speculate that the photodarkening is caused by the 488 nm probe laser, and the very low power (2 μW) of the 488 nm probe laser just explains the very small and constant photodarkening rate   W P D   of Fibers A–C. For Fibers B and C, their Tm3+ concentrations are the same but their core diameters are different. It can be seen from Formula (4) that the W P D is inversely proportional to the core area A. In addition, the smaller the A, the higher the energy density of the pump, and then more launched power is prone to upconversion, which explains that the W P D of Fiber C is greater than that of Fiber B. The average value of the W P D of Fibers A–C is shown in Table 4.
Since the Tm3+ concentration of Fiber D is one order of magnitude higher than that of other sample fibers, a great upconversion phenomenon occurs in the fiber, and the slope of the logarithmic curve of W P D versus P p u m p of Fiber D is 3.068. Therefore, the PD phenomenon of Fiber D can be explained as a three-photon process. Figure 7 is a logarithmic diagram of optical Fiber D. The W P D of Fiber D at the power of 46, 60, and 79 mW is 0.02544, 0.04277, and 0.1328 s−1, respectively. In addition, since almost no photodarkening occurs below the pump power of 17 mW, this set of data are abandoned in plotting. According to the above data, when the pump power of the Fiber D experiment is much lower than that of other fiber experiments, W P D is also much higher than that of other fiber experiments. Therefore, we speculate that because the Tm3+ concentration of Fibers A–C is too low, it is difficult for high-energy photons to be generated by upconversion of pump happening in Tm ion, and the light involved in PD is 488 nm probe laser rather than 1.12 µm pump laser. Furthermore, the probe power is very low (2 µW), which just explains the W P D of Fiber D is much higher than that of Fibers A–C.
According to Formula (11), the α P D , m a x ( T ) is related to the core temperature T . Since there is no temperature control device in the experiment, the main heat source is from the pump. From Figure 8, T is found to have a positive correlation with α P D , m a x ( T ) . T is calculated by the finite element method.
Similar results are also obtained from [48]. In 2005, Koponen et al. measured the variation of additional loss with time under different pump powers in a Yb-doped fiber.
We digitized their experimental data, and converted them into the additional loss of the sample fiber (1 m) at different P p u m p , and fitted it with Formula (11), as shown in Figure 9. We also found that T is directly proportional to α P D , m a x ( T ) (Figure 10).

5. Photodarkening Experiment

The PD loss and absorption spectrum are measured using the settings shown in Figure 11. A probe laser at 532 nm or white light is coupled to a self-made Tm-doped photonic crystal fiber (PCF). The two ends of the sample optical fiber are spliced with the transmission fiber. The 793 nm pump light is coupled into the sample fiber by a beam combiner, and the probe light or white light is measured through a power meter and spectrometer. The sample fibers are self-made Tm-doped PCF (the doping concentration of thulium ion is 0.075 mol%) with a 28.3 µm core diameter and an octagonal inner cladding diameter of 274.2 µm. In order to ensure the same degree of darkening in the sample fiber, the length of the fiber sample was 10 cm long (Figure 12). With this experimental device, by turning on/off the probe and the white light source (WLS) and switching the power meter (PM) and the spectrometer (OSA) mutually, it can be freely switched between the additional loss measuring device and the absorption spectrum measuring device at a characteristic wavelength.
Through the experimental device, we obtained the curve of additional loss with time under different power levels (Figure 13) and fit it with Formula (11).
When the β is equal to 0.5396, the calculated α P D , m a x ( T ) , W P D and R2 of different pump powers are shown in Table 5.
From the above data, we can see that the photodarkening rates ( W P D ) under different powers in the experiment are almost the same. It is thought that because the P p u m p is too high, the P λ obtained by upconversion has reached saturation, so the W P D is almost unchanged. By simulating the core temperature under different power levels, we also find the exponential relationship between T and α P D , m a x ( T ) (Figure 14).
The periodic fluctuation of the curve in Figure 13 is caused by the jittering of water-cooling temperature. When the temperature of the water cooler used in this experiment is set to be 15 °C, the real temperature will fluctuate periodically between 12 and 15 °C in a cycle of approximately 9 min, which is consistent with the fluctuation of additional loss. As can be seen from Figure 15, the additional loss increases in real time with the rise in temperature.
By measuring the transmission spectrum of the white light passing through it before and after PD, respectively, and subtracting the transmission spectrum after PD from the transmission spectrum before PD, the absorption spectrum of the sample PCF can be obtained. The results are shown in Figure 16. The absorption spectrum shows that the color center produced by the sample PCF has strong absorption in the visible range, and the highest peak is at 579.6 nm.

6. Conclusions

An improved mathematical model for simulating and fitting the PD phenomenon is proposed by considering the factors of high-energy photons and temperature. Through fitting and analyzing the experimental data, we can quantitatively determine the relationship between different experimental parameters and PD-induced loss, and explain the mechanism of the PD phenomenon to a certain extent. It is considered that the maximum additional loss is a parameter related to the core temperature in our mathematical model, and it rises with the increase in temperature. The PD rate is directly proportional to the high-energy photon power, and the probability of exciting the unit density PD precursor by one photon, and inversely proportional to the core area. The PD phenomenon is an important problem in fiber lasers. Therefore, establishing an accurate and effective PD mathematical model is an important means to understand and suppress the PD phenomenon. However, this model still needs more comprehensive and targeted experiments for verification.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, Y.Z. (Yi Zheng) and T.S.; investigation, X.S., Y.Z. (Yunhong Zhang) and H.Z.; writing—original draft preparation; writing—review and editing, X.S. and T.S.; visualization, X.S. and Y.S. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (61735005, 61925010); Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality (4182054, 4212052); Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2021RC206).

Institutional Review Board Statement

Not applicable.

Informed Consent Statement

Not applicable.

Data Availability Statement

The data presented in this study are available on request from the corresponding author.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1. The spectrum of Tm-doped fiber pumped by laser at 793 nm.
Figure 1. The spectrum of Tm-doped fiber pumped by laser at 793 nm.
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Figure 2. The process of photodarkening and bleaching. N 0 is the density of the photodarkening precursor, N c c is the density of the CCs, W P D is the photodarkening rate, and W B is the bleaching rate.
Figure 2. The process of photodarkening and bleaching. N 0 is the density of the photodarkening precursor, N c c is the density of the CCs, W P D is the photodarkening rate, and W B is the bleaching rate.
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Figure 3. (a) Measurement and fitting results of Fiber #1. (b) Measurement and fitting results of Fiber #2.
Figure 3. (a) Measurement and fitting results of Fiber #1. (b) Measurement and fitting results of Fiber #2.
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Figure 4. Logarithmic relationship between W P D and P p u m p .
Figure 4. Logarithmic relationship between W P D and P p u m p .
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Figure 5. Schematic diagram of Yb3+ and Tm3+ energy levels in fiber.
Figure 5. Schematic diagram of Yb3+ and Tm3+ energy levels in fiber.
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Figure 6. Measurement and fitting results of (a) Fiber A, (b) Fiber B, (c) Fiber C and (d) Fiber D.
Figure 6. Measurement and fitting results of (a) Fiber A, (b) Fiber B, (c) Fiber C and (d) Fiber D.
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Figure 7. Logarithmic relationship between PD rate and pump power of Fiber D.
Figure 7. Logarithmic relationship between PD rate and pump power of Fiber D.
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Figure 8. Relationship between core temperature and maximum additional loss. a and b in the figure is the fitting parameter.
Figure 8. Relationship between core temperature and maximum additional loss. a and b in the figure is the fitting parameter.
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Figure 9. Additional loss under different pump power.
Figure 9. Additional loss under different pump power.
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Figure 10. Relationship between core temperature and maximum additional loss. a and b in the figure is the fitting parameter.
Figure 10. Relationship between core temperature and maximum additional loss. a and b in the figure is the fitting parameter.
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Figure 11. Setup for the pump-probe and the absorption spectrum experiment. PM, power meter; OSA, spectrometer; WLS, white light source.
Figure 11. Setup for the pump-probe and the absorption spectrum experiment. PM, power meter; OSA, spectrometer; WLS, white light source.
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Figure 12. Microscopic image of Tm-doped photonic crystal fiber end face.
Figure 12. Microscopic image of Tm-doped photonic crystal fiber end face.
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Figure 13. The curve of additional loss with time under different power levels.
Figure 13. The curve of additional loss with time under different power levels.
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Figure 14. Relationship between core temperature and maximum additional loss. a and b in the figure is the fitting parameter.
Figure 14. Relationship between core temperature and maximum additional loss. a and b in the figure is the fitting parameter.
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Figure 15. The curve of additional loss and water-cooling temperature with time.
Figure 15. The curve of additional loss and water-cooling temperature with time.
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Figure 16. Photodarkening absorption spectrum of sample DCF.
Figure 16. Photodarkening absorption spectrum of sample DCF.
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Table 1. Calculated PD rates under different pump powers of Fiber #1.
Table 1. Calculated PD rates under different pump powers of Fiber #1.
Fiber #12 W2.5 W2.9 W3.5 W4.2 W5.4 W6.7 W
W P D (s−1)1.75 × 10−53.01 × 10−56.23 × 10−52.71 × 10−46.25 × 10−41.58 × 10−33.25 × 10−3
R2 (%)99.1899.0999.7597.2298.8499.2699.82
Table 2. Calculated PD rates of different pump powers of Fiber #2.
Table 2. Calculated PD rates of different pump powers of Fiber #2.
Fiber #22 W2.5 W3.2 W4 W5 W6.3 W7.9 W10 W
W P D (s−1)1.46 × 10−55.22 × 10−52.32 × 10−44.74 × 10−48.33 × 10−41.42 × 10−31.93 × 10−33.56 × 10−3
R2 (%)99.1599.7299.7299.5799.5699.6899.1299.26
Table 3. The parameters of four different ZBLAN fibers.
Table 3. The parameters of four different ZBLAN fibers.
FiberThulium Concentration
(Parts in 106)
Core Diameter
( μ m )
Numerical Aperture
A50030.21
B100030.21
C10001.70.39
D11,70030.21
Table 4. The average value of W P D of optical Fibers A–C.
Table 4. The average value of W P D of optical Fibers A–C.
FiberABC
W P D 4.939 × 10−37.431 × 10−37.021 × 10−2
Table 5. Calculated α P D , m a x ( T ) , W P D and R2 of different pump powers of DCF.
Table 5. Calculated α P D , m a x ( T ) , W P D and R2 of different pump powers of DCF.
  P p u m p 10 W12.5 W15 W17.5 W
α P D , m a x ( T ) (dB/m)13.2617.2324.4231.43
W P D (s−1)4.953 × 10−34.964 × 10−34.81 × 10−34.645 × 10−3
R2 (%)84.1489.0988.6694.96
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