A refined model of a mid-IR amplifier, constituted by a tapered chalcogenide fiber coupled to an erbium-doped chalcogenide microsphere, is integrated with a global solution search procedure based on particle swarm optimization approach. It is implemented in a computer code in order to obtain an inversion algorithm useful to evaluate the spectroscopic parameters of rare-earth-doped glass microspheres. The rare earth parameters can be recovered by means of the optical gain measurement. The error in evaluation of the erbium lifetime τ41 is <3.5%. It is <0.5% for the other lifetimes and ion–ion interaction parameters. These excellent results are obtained since whispering gallery mode electromagnetic field interacts with rare earth for long effective distances.
Modeling of Whispering Gallery Modes for Rare Earth Spectroscopic Characterization / Palma, Giuseppe; Falconi, C.; Nazabal, V.; Yano, T.; Kishi, T.; Kumagai, T.; Ferrari, M.; Prudenzano, Francesco. - In: IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS. - ISSN 1041-1135. - 27:17(2015), pp. 1861-1863. [10.1109/LPT.2015.2443915]
Modeling of Whispering Gallery Modes for Rare Earth Spectroscopic Characterization
PALMA, Giuseppe;C. Falconi;PRUDENZANO, Francesco
2015-01-01
Abstract
A refined model of a mid-IR amplifier, constituted by a tapered chalcogenide fiber coupled to an erbium-doped chalcogenide microsphere, is integrated with a global solution search procedure based on particle swarm optimization approach. It is implemented in a computer code in order to obtain an inversion algorithm useful to evaluate the spectroscopic parameters of rare-earth-doped glass microspheres. The rare earth parameters can be recovered by means of the optical gain measurement. The error in evaluation of the erbium lifetime τ41 is <3.5%. It is <0.5% for the other lifetimes and ion–ion interaction parameters. These excellent results are obtained since whispering gallery mode electromagnetic field interacts with rare earth for long effective distances.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
