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Juan Navarro-Arenas1, Isaac Suárez2,3, Juan P Martínez-Pastor4
1Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales (ICMUV), Universidad de Valencia, C/Catedrático José Beltrán, 2, E-46980 Paterna, Spain. juan.navarro-arenas@uv.es.
Abstract:
We report a hollow-core negative-curvature fiber (HC-NCF) optical signal amplifier fabricated by the filling of the air microchannels of the fiber with all-inorganic CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs). The optimum fabrication conditions were found to enhance the optical gain, up to +3 dB in the best device. Experimental results were approximately reproduced by a gain assisted mechanism based on the nonlinear optical properties of the PNCs, indicating that signal regeneration can be achieved under low pump powers, much below the threshold of stimulated emission. The results can pave the road of new functionalities of the HC-NCF with PNCs, such as optical amplification, nonlinear frequency conversion and gas sensors.
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