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Yb-doped fiber laser is a very appealing technology to implement space communication, laser radar and nuclear facilities due to its reduced weight, size, high efficiency, high peak power combined with good beam quality. However, Yb-doped fiber materials will suffer a harsh ionizing radiation (such as neutron, proton and electron) under the condition of irradiation. The radiation-induced darkening effect can lead the fiber loss to increase obviously, the laser slope efficiency to decrease drastically, and even no laser output to be observed in severe cases. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct in-depth research on the performance changes of Yb-doped fiber materials subjected to the irradiation. In this paper, a series of Yb-doped optical fibers and optical fibers is prepared by the improved chemical vapor deposition method combined with rare-earth chelate-doped. And the optical properties of the optical fiber before and after being irradiated and annealed are tested. We mainly investigate the absorption spectrum of Yb-doped fiber material. The results show that the concentration of Al-related defects in the Yb-doped fiber material increases after neutron irradiation, and the absorption loss in the visible region increases. And the color center defects produced by the irradiation will significantly reduce the Yb ion fluorescence lifetime. The doping of Ce ions can reduce the Al-oxygen hole center (Al-OHC) color center defects, and can suppresse the radiation-induced darkening effect of Yb-doped fiber to a certain extent. Thermal annealing can reduce the absorption of fiber material by reducing the concentration of neutron radiation-induced color center defects, and thus eliminating the darkening effect to a certain extent. Finally, with our previous research, we find that neutron irradiation and ray irradiation have similar effects on the optical properties of Yb-doped fiber materials. The main reason is that the electron ionization effects occur due to both ray irradiation and neutron irradiation to generate free electron and hole pairs, which then combine with the original defects in the material to turn into color center defects. However, the color center defects caused by neutron irradiation are more stable and require thermal annealing to be eliminated. And the results obtained in this study provide theoretical basis and solution for developing the Yb-doped fibers with high laser performance and high radiation resistance.
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Keywords:
- Yb-doped fiber /
- radiation /
- spectra /
- thermal annealing
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图 1 光纤吸收谱测试系统
Figure 1. The absorption spectra of optical fibers measurement configuration.
图 2 辐照前后 (a)掺镱光纤预制棒S1吸收光谱和(b)掺镱光纤预制棒S2吸收光谱, 图(b)中的插图给出了980 nm附近的放大图
Figure 2. Absorption spectra of (a) optical fiber preform S1 and (b) optical fiber preform S2 before and after irradiation, the insets of panel (b) show the enlarged views near 980 nm.
图 3 S1光纤预制棒辐照后实验数据及高斯拟合
Figure 3. Experimental date and decomposition with Gaussian of S1 optical fiber preform after irradiation.
图 4 S2光纤预制棒辐照后实验数据及高斯拟合
Figure 4. Experimental date and decomposition with Gaussian of S2 optical fiber preform after irradiation.
图 5 辐致色心缺陷转变模型
Figure 5. Model of radiation darkening color center defects transfer.
图 6 中子辐照前后光纤的吸收谱
Figure 6. Absorption spectrum of optical fibers before and after neutron irradiation.
图 7 中子辐照前后及热退火后(a)掺镱光纤预制棒S1吸收光谱和(b)掺镱光纤预制棒S2吸收光谱
Figure 7. Absorption spectra of (a) optical fiber preform S1 and (b) optical fiber preform S2 before and after irradiation and after annealing.
表 1 光纤及预制棒的EPMA元素分析
Table 1. Electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) of optical fibers and optical fiber preforms.
No. Doping concentration/mol% Yb Al Ce 1# 0.06 0.51 0 2# 0.05 0.53 0.02 S1 0.13 0.78 0 S2 0.11 1.56 0.02 
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表 2 辐照前后及热退火后Yb3+的荧光寿命
Table 2. Fluorescence lifetime of Yb3+ before and after irradiation and after annealing.
No. t/ms τ1 τ2 τ3 S1 0.948 0.749 0.929 S2 0.939 0.747 0.907
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[1] Paschotta R, Nilsson J, Tropper A C, Hanna D C 1997 IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 33 1049
Google Scholar
[2] Lu K, Dutta N K 2002 J. Appl. Phys. 91 576
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
Huang H Q, Zhao N, Chen G, Liao L, Liu Z J, Peng J G, Dai N L 2014 Acta Phys. Sin. 63 200201
Google Scholar
[5] Lezius M, Predehl K, Stower W, Turler A, Greiter M, Hoeschen C, Thirolf P, Assmann W, Habs D, Prokofiev A, Ekstrom C, Hansch T W, Holzwarth R 2012 IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 59 425
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Google Scholar
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[8] Fox B P, Simmons-Potter K, Simmons J H, Thomes Jr W J, Bambha R P, Kliner D A V 2008 Proc. SPIE Fiber Lasers V:Technol. Syst. Appl. 6873 68731F
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Song J M, Guo J H, Wang X Q, Hu Z L 2012 Laser Optoelectron. Prog. 49 58
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Li F F, Zhou X Y, Zhang K B, Chen J Z, Gao C, Zhang L H, Shi Z H, Xia H D, Ye X, Wu W D, Li B 2020 High Power Laser Part. Beams 32 081003
[15] Wang F, Shao C Y, Yu C L, Wang S K, Zhang L, Gao G J, Hu L L 2019 J. Appl. Phys. 125 173104
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[16] Origlio G, Messina F, Girard S, Cannas M, Boukenter A, Ouerdane Y 2010 J. Appl. Phys. 108 123103
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[23] Feng W, She S F, Wang P F, Liu Y S, Chang C, Hou C Q, Li W N 2020 J. Non-Cryst. Solids 528 119540
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