Authors

R. Stegeman; C. Rivero; K. Richardson; G. Stegeman; P. Delfyett; Y. Guo; A. Pope; A. Schulte; T. Cardinal; P. Thomas;J. C. Champarnaud-Mesjard

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Opt. Express

Keywords

TL GLASSES; FIBER; AMPLIFICATION; COEFFICIENTS; SCATTERING; SILICA; Optics

Abstract

Several different compositions of tellurium-thallium oxide glasses were fabricated and tested for their Raman gain performance. The addition of PbO to the glass matrix increased the surface optical damage threshold by 60-230%. The maximum material Raman gain coefficient experimentally obtained was (58 +/- 3) times higher than the peak Raman gain of a 3.18 mm thick Corning 7980-2F fused silica sample (Deltanu = 13.2 THz). The highest peak in the Raman gain spectrum of the tellurium-thallium glass is attributed to the presence of TeO3 and TeO3+1 structural units with thallium ions in the vicinity at a frequency shift near 21.3 THz.

Journal Title

Optics Express

Volume

13

Issue/Number

4

Publication Date

1-1-2005

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

1144

Last Page

1149

WOS Identifier

WOS:000227252700014

ISSN

1094-4087

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