Cooperative luminescence in an ytterbium-doped silica fibre

Sylvain Magne (1, 2) , Youcef Ouerdane (1) , Michel Druetta (1) , Jean-Pierre Goure (1) , Pierre Ferdinand (2) , Gérard Monnom (3)

1 LHC - Laboratoire Hubert Curien
2 LCFO (CEA, LIST) - Laboratoire Capteurs Fibres Optiques (CEA, LIST)
3 LPMC - Laboratoire de physique de la matière condensée

We report the first spectral and power-law modeling of cooperative luminescence in an ytterbium-doped optical silica fibre structure enabling the creation of new saturation effects. We believe that the low-concentration transfer originates in the ytterbium-oxide molecule itself and is consequently due to the inherently oxidizing MCVD process.

Mots clés: instrumentation, ytterbium, doping, Optical Fiber Sensor, Distributed and Quasi-distributed sensing, cooperative luminescence

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]; Instrumentations et Détecteurs [physics.ins-det]

Sylvain Magne, Youcef Ouerdane, Michel Druetta, Jean-Pierre Goure, Pierre Ferdinand, et al.. Cooperative luminescence in an ytterbium-doped silica fibre. Optics Communications, 1994, 111 (3-4), pp.310-316. ⟨hal-00469779⟩