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- Vigneron, Pierre-Baptiste, et al.
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Anti-Stokes Cooling of Nanoparticle-Doped Silica Fibers
- 2022
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Ingår i: PHOTONIC HEAT ENGINES. - : SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering. - 9781510649088 - 9781510649071
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The recent reports of laser cooling in Yb-doped aluminosilicate fibers and silica preforms have opened up the field of optical refrigeration and radiation-balanced lasers to the enormous realm of silica fiber lasers and amplifiers. To increase the cooling efficiency achieved in these materials, it is critical to identify host compositions that improve the Yb3+-ion properties in the directions of low concentration quenching, short radiative lifetime, and a long-wavelength absorption tail that extends as far as possible above the zero-phonon line. In this on-going quest, nanoparticle-doped fibers offer a promising technique to modify the chemical environment of the Yb3+ ions and achieve some of these properties. In this work, three fibers in which the Yb3+ ions are initially encapsulated in CaF2, SrF2, or BaF2 nanoparticles were fabricated using a solution-doping technique, and their laser-cooling properties evaluated experimentally and analyzed. The CaF2 fiber and the SrF2 fiber were successfully cooled at atmospheric pressure when pumped with a continuous-wave laser at the near-optimum wavelength of 1040 nm. The measured maximum temperature change from room temperature was -26.2 mK for the CaF2 fiber at a pump power absorption level of 90 mW/m, and -16.7 mK at 66 mW/m for the SrF2 fiber. The BaF2 fiber did not cool, but it warmed only slightly, indicating that it was not far from cooling. Analysis of the measured dependence of the fiber temperature change on pump power with a model enabled extraction of the fiber's critical quenching concentration and residual absorptive loss due to impurities. Comparison of these values to the values reported for an aluminosilicate fiber and fiber preforms that cooled shows that the CaF2 and SrF2 fibers faired as well as the fiber, and better than the preforms, in terms of quenching, but that they had a higher absorptive loss. This study establishes the significant research potential of nanoparticle-doped fibers in the search for efficient laser-cooling silica hosts.
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- Vigneron, Pierre-Baptiste, et al.
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Anti-Stokes fluorescence cooling of nanoparticle-doped silica fibers
- 2022
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Ingår i: Optics Letters. - 0146-9592 .- 1539-4794. ; 47:10, s. 2590-2593
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The first observation of cooling by anti-Stokes pumping in nanoparticle-doped silica fibers is reported. Four Yb-doped fibers fabricated using conventional modified chemical vapor deposition (MCVD) techniques were evaluated, namely, an aluminosilicate fiber and three fibers in which the Yb ions were encapsulated in CaF2, SrF2, or BaF2 nanoparticles. The nanoparticles, which oxidize during preform processing, provide a modified chemical environment for the Yb3+ ions that is beneficial to cooling. When pumped at the near-optimum cooling wavelength of 1040 nm at atmospheric pressure, the fibers experienced a maximum measured temperature drop of 20.5 mK (aluminosilicate fiber), 26.2 mK (CaF2 fiber), and 16.7 mK (SrF2 fiber). The BaF2 fiber did not cool but warmed slightly. The three fibers that cooled had a cooling efficiency comparable to that of the best previously reported Yb-doped silica fiber that cooled. Data analysis shows that this efficiency is explained by the fibers' high critical quenching concentration and low residual absorptive loss (linked to sub-ppm OH contamination). This study demonstrates the large untapped potential of nanoparticle doping in the current search for silicate compositions that produce optimum anti-Stokes cooling.
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