Abstract

By using different active materials as gain media, we demonstrate a system aimed to measure the fluorescence lifetime of gain media in the fiber laser by utilizing the correlation between the laser’s relaxation oscillation characteristics and the fluorescence lifetime of the active materials. As the advantages of extremely compact configuration, non-destructive and real time of the system, the fluorescence lifetime of gain media composed of materials of erbium–ytterbium-doped or erbium-doped have been measured, whose results are 20.2 µs and 1.62 ms, respectively. The proposed method provides a new, to the best of our knowledge, idea for real-time monitoring of fluorescence lifetime in the fiber laser.

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