8 mu m luminescence from a Tb3+ GaGeSbSe fiber

Florent Starecki (1) , Nora Abdellaoui (2) , A. Braud (1) , Jean-Louis Doualan (1) , Catherine Boussard-Plédel (2) , Bruno Bureau (2) , Patrice Camy (1) , Virginie Nazabal (2)

1 CIMAP - UMR 6252 - Centre de recherche sur les Ions, les MAtériaux et la Photonique
2 ISCR - Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes

In this Letter, we report for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, on an emission at 8 μm from Tb-doped GaGeSbSe chalcogenide fibers with doping levels at 1000 ppm and 500 ppm. These fibers were drawn following conventional melt-quenching methods and pumped at 2.05 μm using a Tm: YAG laser. The spectroscopic properties of the emitting F7 manifold are investigated to rule out any parasitic signal mimicking the real Tb 8 μm emission. Time-resolved spectroscopic experiments are presented to build a comprehensive study of this 8 μm fluorescence recorded with a clear signal-to-noise ratio.

Domains: Chemical Sciences

Florent Starecki, Nora Abdellaoui, A. Braud, Jean-Louis Doualan, Catherine Boussard-Plédel, et al.. 8 mu m luminescence from a Tb3+ GaGeSbSe fiber. Optics Letters, 2018, 43 (6), pp.1211-1214. ⟨10.1364/OL.43.001211⟩. ⟨hal-01771092⟩