Pr³⁺-doped Mid-infrared Chalcogenide Fiber Amplifiers using Cascaded Amplification

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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0269-8433
 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6426-3051

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2016-6-5

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Hu, Jonathan, Curtis R. Menyuk, Chengli Wei, L. Brandon Shaw, Jasbinder S. Sanghera, and Ishwar D. Aggarwal. “Pr³⁺-Doped Mid-Infrared Chalcogenide Fiber Amplifiers Using Cascaded Amplification.” In Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (2016), Paper STh1O.7, STh1O.7. Optica Publishing Group, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_SI.2016.STh1O.7.

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UMBC Optical Fiber Communications Laboratory
UMBC High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF)
Fiber losses
Light sources
UMBC Optical Fiber Communications Laboratory
Laser pumping
Chalcogenide glass
Supercontinuum generation
Praseodymium

Abstract

We computationally investigate cascaded amplification in a three-level mid-infrared Pr³⁺-doped chalcogenide fiber amplifier. We show that 45% of the pump power that is injected at 2 μm can be shifted to 4.5 μm.