Computational analysis of the amplification features of active plastic optical fibers

✍ Scribed by Ayesta, I. ;Arrue, J. ;Jiménez, F. ;Illarramendi, M. A. ;Zubia, J.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 337 KB
• Volume: 208
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0031-8965
• DOI: 10.1002/pssa.201084111

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Polymer optical fibers doped with organic dyes can be used as efficient optical amplifiers and lasers in the visible region. We computationally study the spectral evolution with distance of the pulses propagating along such fibers. The main goal is to analyze the lasing threshold and the slope efficiency as functions of the fraction of spontaneous emission that contributes to laser emission. The discussion focuses on rhodamine‐6G doped fibers.