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Blue and near-infrared up-conversion in double-air-cladding Tm3+-doped silica fiber under 1064 nm excitation

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Double-air-cladding Tm3+-doped silica fiber with a large core is fabricated by stacking capillaries method. By the excitation at 1064 nm, the optical properties of this fiber doped with 0.1 mol% Tm3+ are studied. The blue and near-infrared emissions around 473 and 793 nm are experimentally observed. In addition, the up-conversion mechanism of Tm3+ in glass is investigated. The results show that the Tm3+-doped fiber with a large core can be used as the potential optical material for the high power fiber laser which operates at the blue and near-infrared wavelengths.

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61377100 and 61205084, Guangdong Natural Science Foundation under Grant S2013040015665, Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education under Grant 20134407120014 and Colleges and universities in Hebei province science and technology research project under Grant QN20131044.

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    Changming Xia, Guiyao Zhou, Jiantao Liu, Wei Zhang, Ying Han & Jinhui Yuan

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Xia, C., Zhou, G., Liu, J. et al. Blue and near-infrared up-conversion in double-air-cladding Tm3+-doped silica fiber under 1064 nm excitation. Opt Quant Electron 47, 3435–3444 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-015-0219-x

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