对光热折变(Photo-thermal-refractive, PTR)玻璃在总剂量分别为0.35、1、10及100 kGy的γ射线下辐照, 并进行热退火处理, 采用吸收光谱、光致发光光谱及EPR电子顺磁共振谱研究了光热折变玻璃在γ射线辐照下的辐照机理。研究结果表明, γ辐照后的PTR玻璃在可见波段的吸收主要由银原子Ag⁰、银分子簇Ag₂、银分子簇Ag₃、银纳米颗粒Ag_m⁰及非桥氧空穴中心HC₁及HC₂引起; 在不同剂量γ射线辐照下, 玻璃基质中的变价离子(Ag⁺、Ce³⁺)价态先发生变化, 同时玻璃基质中的非桥氧键发生电离, 形成了非桥氧空穴型缺陷中心HC₁、HC₂。进一步增加辐照剂量, 产生了银的分子簇Ag₂和Ag₃; 同时玻璃基质中非桥氧空穴中心HC₂的浓度增大, 导致在639 nm附近的吸收增强。分别在不同温度下对辐照后的PTR玻璃进行相同时间的热处理及在低于T_g(玻璃转变温度)的温度下进行不同时间的热处理, 观察到250 ℃退火后PTR玻璃中HC₁及HC₂缺陷中心发生漂白; 并在430 ℃退火后出现了银纳米颗粒的吸收峰, 该吸收峰随退火时间的延长发生了红移及展宽。

In this work, a heavily Er-doped fiber with an 8 µm core diameter and a numerical aperture of 0.13 was prepared by the modified chemical vapor deposition (MCVD) technique combined with the sol-gel method. The background loss and absorption coefficient at 1530 nm were measured to be 20 dB/km and 128 dB/m, respectively. Thanks to the sol-gel method, the fiber showed a good doping homogeneity, which was confirmed through unsaturable absorption measurement. The net gains of three 25, 45, and 75-cm-long fibers were measured in the range of 1520 to 1600 nm, and the highest gain reached above 23 dB at both 1530 and 1560 nm in 25 and 75-cm-long fibers, respectively. The short-cavity laser performance was measured using centimeter-scale fibers. The maximum output power of 12 mW was demonstrated in a 6.5-cm-long active fiber with a slope efficiency of 20.4%. Overall, the prepared heavily Er-doped silica fiber is a promising item to be applied in a high-repetition-rate or single-frequency fiber laser.

Using a heavily erbium-doped aluminosilicate fiber prepared by the sol-gel method combined with high temperature sintering, the temperature dependence of the spectrum around the 1.55 nm band and single-mode fiber laser properties were investigated, respectively. The absorption cross section increases 29.2% at ～1558 nm with the temperature increasing from 20°C to 140°C, while the emission cross section slightly increases 4.3%. In addition, the laser slope of the heavily erbium-doped aluminosilicate fiber at 1558 nm decreases 4.4% from 10.8% to 6.4% with the temperature increasing from 18°C to 440°C. Meanwhile, an experiment lasting 3 h proves that the fiber laser has excellent stability below 440°C.

Induced loss at 633 nm is tested in Yb3+/Al3+ co-doped silica fiber by a core pumped with a 974 nm laser and probed with a 633 nm laser. The fiber is prepared by the modified chemical vapor deposition method combined with solution doping. Different power scales of pump light and probe light are used in the tests. It is found that there is a dynamic equilibrium between photobleaching induced by 633 nm probe light and photodarkening (PD) induced by 974 nm pump light. For the first time to our knowledge, the effect of 633 nm probe laser power on an induced loss test of Yb3+/Al3+ co-doped silica fiber is studied quantitatively. It suggests that as long as the 633 nm probe light power is less than 0.2 mW, the induced loss is mainly contributed by the PD effect of pumping light, and the deviation of induced loss is less than 5%.