Mid-infrared Er3+:ZBLAN waveguide using ZBLAN glass extrusion, femto-second inscription and dual-wavelength pumping for the generation of 3.5 μm lasing

Ori Henderson-Sapir; Saheed Oladipupo Fashola; Nathaniel Bawden; Alastair Dowler; Alson Ng; David J. Ottaway; Alex Fuerbach; Heike Ebendorf-Heidepriem

doi:10.1109/ICTON51198.2020.9203108

Mid-infrared Er³⁺:ZBLAN waveguide using ZBLAN glass extrusion, femto-second inscription and dual-wavelength pumping for the generation of 3.5 μm lasing

Ori Henderson-Sapir^*, Saheed Oladipupo Fashola, Nathaniel Bawden, Alastair Dowler, Alson Ng, David J. Ottaway, Alex Fuerbach, Heike Ebendorf-Heidepriem

^*Corresponding author for this work

MQ Photonics Research Centre

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Abstract

We present our work towards a 3.5 μm Er³⁺:ZBLAN femto-second laser inscribed waveguide laser. The waveguide was made by extruding bulk ZBLAN glass into a slab for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. The slab was then cut and polished with multiple concentric-ring waveguides of 28 - 36 μm core diameter written into the glass along its long axis resulting with a 125 mm long waveguides embedded within a glass rectangle of 7×10×125 mm. The waveguide structures are pumped by two single mode pump sources at 976 nm and 1973 nm employing the dual-wavelength pumping method for obtaining 3.5 μm operation. Numerical analysis of the system will be presented as well as our latest experimental results.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICTON 2020
Subtitle of host publication	22nd International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	1-4
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728184234
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON51198.2020.9203108
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2020
Event	22nd International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2020 - Bari, Italy Duration: 19 Jul 2020 → 23 Jul 2020

Conference

Conference	22nd International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2020
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Bari
Period	19/07/20 → 23/07/20

Keywords

Dual-wavelength pumping
Glass extrusion
Mid-infrared
Waveguide
ZBLAN

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Henderson-Sapir, O., Fashola, S. O., Bawden, N., Dowler, A., Ng, A., Ottaway, D. J., Fuerbach, A., & Ebendorf-Heidepriem, H. (2020). Mid-infrared Er³⁺:ZBLAN waveguide using ZBLAN glass extrusion, femto-second inscription and dual-wavelength pumping for the generation of 3.5 μm lasing. In ICTON 2020: 22nd International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (pp. 1-4). Article We.D6.2 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON51198.2020.9203108

Henderson-Sapir, Ori ; Fashola, Saheed Oladipupo ; Bawden, Nathaniel et al. / Mid-infrared Er³⁺:ZBLAN waveguide using ZBLAN glass extrusion, femto-second inscription and dual-wavelength pumping for the generation of 3.5 μm lasing. ICTON 2020: 22nd International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks. Piscataway, NJ : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020. pp. 1-4

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Henderson-Sapir O, Fashola SO, Bawden N, Dowler A, Ng A, Ottaway DJ et al. Mid-infrared Er³⁺:ZBLAN waveguide using ZBLAN glass extrusion, femto-second inscription and dual-wavelength pumping for the generation of 3.5 μm lasing. In ICTON 2020: 22nd International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks. Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). 2020. p. 1-4. We.D6.2 doi: 10.1109/ICTON51198.2020.9203108