Abstract
In recent years, chalcogenide glasses have become the leading contenders as hosts for a Pr3+-doped fibre amplifier at 1.3 μm (PDFA), 1 due to their low phonon energy (350–450cm−1) and short 1G4 radiative lifetimes, leading to quantum efficiencies (QE) as high as 80%.2
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