Document Type
Article
Rights
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
1.3 PHYSICAL SCIENCES, Electrical and electronic engineering
Abstract
In this letter, an Yb 3+ -Ho 3+ codoped sol-gel silica microsphere lasing at around 2.0 μm is reported. The gain microsphere is fabricated by overlaying the 1.0 mol% Yb 3+ -0.2 mol% Ho 3+ codoped sol-gel solution on the surface of a pure silica microsphere and is then heated using a CO 2 laser. Using a traditional fiber taper-microsphere coupling method, we observe the single- and multi-mode microsphere laser outputs around 2.0 μm using a 980 nm laser diode as a pump source, with a low threshold pumping power of 14.7 mW. The ability to fabricate sol-gel codoped silica glass microlasers represents a new generation of low-threshold and compact mid-infrared laser sources for use as miniaturized photonic components for a wide range of applications including gas sensing and medical surgery.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2018.2859053
Recommended Citation
A. Li et al., "An Yb3+-Ho3+ Codoped Glass Microsphere Laser in the $2.0~\mu$ m Wavelength Regions," in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 30, no. 17, pp. 1543-1546, 1 Sept.1, 2018, doi: 10.1109/LPT.2018.2859053.