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Development of Bi/Er co-doped optical fibers for ultra-broadband photonic applications

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Targeting the huge unused bandwidth (BW) of modern telecommunication networks, Bi/Er co-doped silica optical fibers (BEDFs) have been proposed and developed for ultra-broadband, high-gain optical amplifiers covering the 1150–1700 nm wavelength range. Ultrabroadband luminescence has been demonstrated in both BEDFs and bismuth/erbium/ytterbium co-doped optical fibers (BEYDFs) fabricated with the modified chemical vapor deposition (MCVD) and in situ doping techniques. Several novel and sophisticated techniques have been developed for the fabrication and characterization of the new active fibers. For controlling the performance of the active fibers, post-treatment processes using high temperature, g-radiation, and laser light have been introduced. Although many fundamental scientific and technological issues and challenges still remain, several photonic applications, such as fiber sensing, fiber gratings, fiber amplification, fiber lasers, etc., have already been demonstrated.

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Authors are thankful for the support of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61520106014, 61405014 and 61377096), Key Laboratory of In-fiber Integrated Optics, Ministry Education of China, State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) (No. IPOC2016ZT07), Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing & Communications (Education Ministry of China), Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province (No. GD201702) and Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality, China (Nos. SKLSFO2015-01 and 15220721500). We also wishes to express our thanks to all members of Photonics & Optical Communications at UNSW, Prof. John Canning and Dr. Kevin Cook at University of Sydney, Prof. Graham Town at Macquarie University, and Prof. Tingyun Wang at Shanghai University for their assistance and contributions.

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    Yanhua Luo & Gang-Ding Peng

  2. Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200072, China

    Yanhua Luo & Jianxiang Wen

  3. State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, China

    Binbin Yan

  4. Key Lab of In-fiber Integrated Optics, Ministry of Education, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, 150001, China

    Jianzhong Zhang

  5. Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province, College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China

    Jun He

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Dr. Yanhua Luo received his B.E. and Ph. D. degrees from University of Science and Technology of China (UTSC) in 2004 and 2009, respectively. During his Ph.D. study, he had spent one and a half years in School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications at University of New South Wales (UNSW) as a practicum student. His research interest is functional photonics materials, fibers and devices, including rare earth based photonic materials, photo-responsive photonic materials, POF and silica fiberdesign, fabrication & applications, etc. He has made many contributions to photonics materials and devices. So far he has held 2 China patents and co-authored 88 refereed journal papers, 70 conference papers and 3 book chapters on these subjects. Dr. Luo started working as a postdoctoral researcher in USTC in 2009 and then in UNSW in 2010. Currently, he works as a lab manager of Photonic & Optical Communications Laboratory at University of New South Wales assisting Prof. Gang-Ding Peng to maintain the National Joint Fibre Facility at UNSW and develop the next generation functional specialty optical fibers and their devices.

A/Prof. Binbin Yan received her bachelor’s degree in electronic science and technology and her Ph.D. degree in electromagnetic field and microwave technology from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing, China, in 2003 and 2010, respectively. During her Ph.D. study, she had spent two years in School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications at University of New South Wales (UNSW) as a practicum student. In 2010, she joined the institute of Information Photonics and Optical Communications at BUPT as lecturer. From 2016, she is working as an associate professor in the field of new type photonic devices and optical information processing, including fiber amplifier and laser, fiber Bragg grating, optical fiber sensors, photonic crystal fibers, 3D displays, and so on.

Prof. Jianzhong Zhang received his bachelor’s degree of condensed-state physics from the Lanzhou University in 2000 and obtained his master’s and doctor’s degrees in optical engineering from the Harbin Engineering University in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He then joined the School of Physics at Harbin Engineering University as an A/professor at the end of 2007. He became a full professor of Harbin Engineering University in 2011. During 2006, he visited University of New South Wales (UNSW) as a visiting fellow supervised by Prof. Gang-Ding Peng. His research interests are in optical fiber laser, optical fiber sensors and wave characteristics in periodical structure. He has published more than 60 articles in international journals and conferences. He is currently the PI for six research projects including two funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China which is ongoing in his parent University.

A/Prof. Jianxiang Wen received his M.S. degree in chemical and material engineering from Jiangnan University, Jiangsu, China, in 2006, and received his Ph.D. degree in communication and information systems from Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, and the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, in 2011. From 2001 to 2007, he was an R&D Engineer in Jiangsu Fasten Photonics Company. Now he is an associate Professor, and working at Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Shanghai University. His research interests include design and fabrication in the specialty fiber fields such as spun optical fibers, polarization-maintaining optical fibers, doping fibers (Bi, Pb, Yb, Er, Ce elements), specialty optical fibers with radiation-hardness, and so on, be proficient in MCVD and ALD techniques for the fibers fabrication. His awards include Jiangsu Province Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Prize) in 2008, National Public Postgraduate Award China in 2009.

Dr. Jun He received his bachelor’s degree in electronic science and technology from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 2006 and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China, in 2011. From 2011 to 2013, he was with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Shenzhen, China, as a Research Engineer and worked on performance monitoring techniques for agile optical networks. Since 2013, he has been with Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China, first as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and then as an Assistant Professor. From 2015 to 2016, he was with the University of New SouthWales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia, as a Visiting Fellow. Since 2017, he has been in Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China, as an Assistant Professor. His current research interests focus on optical fiber sensors, fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs), and fiber lasers. He has authored or coauthored 4 patent applications and more than 50 journal and conference papers. Dr. He is a member of the Optical Society of America.

Prof. Gang-Ding Peng received his B.Sc. degree in physics from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 1982, and M.Sc. degree in applied physics and Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 1984 and 1987, respectively. From 1987 through 1988, he was a lecturer of the Jiao Tong University. He was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Optical Sciences Centre of the Australian National University, Canberra, from 1988–1991. He has been working with UNSW since 1991, was a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow from 1992–1996 and is currently a Professor in the same university. He is a fellow and life member of both OSA and SPIE. His research interests include specialty silica and polymer optical fibers, optical fiber and waveguide devices, optical fiber sensors and nonlinear optics. So far, he has published more than 200 refereed journal papers and more than 200 conference papers, and co-authored more than 10 book chapters on these subjects.

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Luo, Y., Yan, B., Zhang, J. et al. Development of Bi/Er co-doped optical fibers for ultra-broadband photonic applications. Front. Optoelectron. 11, 37–52 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-017-0764-y

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