Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the technical defects and provides the rare earth doped bismuthate optical fiber glass capable of emitting the near-infrared band broadband emission and the preparation method thereof.
In order to solve the technical problem, the invention provides a near-infrared band broadband emission rare earth doped bismuthate optical fiber glass which comprises the following raw materials in percentage by mole: 74 to 75 mol% of Bi2O319 to 20 mol% of B2O34 to 5 mol% of Na2O, 0.3-0.5 mol% Er2O30.8 to 1.2 mol% of Yb2O30.2 to 0.4 mol% of Pr6O11。
Preferably, the raw materials comprise the following components in percentage by mole: 75 mol% of Bi2O319 mol% of B2O34.4 mol% of Na2O, 0.3 mol% Er2O31.0 mol% of Yb2O30.3 mol% of Pr6O11。
Preferably, the raw materials comprise the following components in percentage by mole: 74 mol% of Bi2O320 mol% of B2O34 mol% of Na2O, 0.4 mol% Er2O31.2 mol% of Yb2O30.4 mol% of Pr6O11。
Preferably, B2O3With H3BO3Form of (2) incorporation of Na2O is Na2CO3Is incorporated in the form of (1). I.e. B2O3From twice the molar amount of H3BO3Instead of, Na2O is formed from an equimolar amount of Na2CO3Instead. B is2O3Mainly adding B3+Action of Na2O mainly adds Na+The function of (1). H3BO3Decomposition at elevated temperatures may give B2O3Reaction of (1), Na2CO3Decomposition at high temperature can produce Na2The reaction of O may likewise be effected by adding B separately3+And Na+The function of (1).
The preparation method of the near-infrared band broadband emission rare earth doped bismuthate optical fiber glass comprises the following steps:
(1) weighing the raw materials according to the mol percentage for later use;
(2) fully and uniformly mixing the raw materials weighed in the step (1), and heating and melting to obtain a glass solution;
(3) quenching and forming the glass solution obtained in the step (2) to obtain a glass sheet;
(4) and (4) annealing the glass sheet obtained in the step (3) to obtain bismuthate optical fiber glass.
Preferably, step (2): fully grinding the weighed raw materials in the step (1), uniformly mixing, pouring into a corundum crucible, and placing in a high-temperature furnace at 1050-1100 ℃ for melting for 1h to obtain a glass solution.
Preferably, step (3): and taking the corundum crucible filled with the glass solution out of the high-temperature furnace, and carrying out quenching forming on a preheated graphite mold to obtain the glass sheet.
Preferably, step (4): and (3) putting the graphite mold poured with the glass solution into a muffle furnace at 330-350 ℃ for annealing, and obtaining the bismuthate optical fiber glass after the annealing is finished.
Preferably, the annealing process is as follows: and transferring the graphite mold with the glass liquid to a muffle furnace heated to 330-350 ℃, preserving heat for 2h, and then cooling to room temperature at the speed of 8-10 ℃/h.
Preferably, step (4): and taking out the graphite mold with the bismuthate optical fiber glass from the muffle furnace, and carrying out double-sided polishing treatment on the bismuthate optical fiber glass.
The invention has the beneficial effects that: the invention provides a near-infrared band broadband emission rare earth doped bismuthate optical fiber glass and a preparation method thereof, and the glass has the following outstanding characteristics and beneficial effects:
(1) er is introduced into bismuthate optical fiber glass3+、Pr3+And Yb3+Through the co-doping of the three rare earth ions and the concentration optimization, the Er-Pr-Yb co-doped bismuthate optical fiber glass has two near-infrared broadband emissions in the ranges of 1200-1400 nm and 1450-1650 nm under the excitation of pump light with the wavelength of 980nm, the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the fluorescence of the Er-Pr-Yb co-doped bismuthate optical fiber glass reaches 82nm and 84nm respectively, and the spectrum is relatively flat.
(2) The rare earth doped bismuthate optical fiber glass has simple preparation process and excellent physical and chemical properties.
(3) The invention adopts the silicon carbide rod electric furnace and the common temperature control muffle furnace to prepare the bismuthate optical fiber glass, needs less equipment and is very suitable for application in actual production.
Detailed Description
In order to make the technical problems, technical solutions and advantageous effects to be solved by the present application clearer, the present application is further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the present application and are not intended to limit the present application.
Example 1
The invention provides a near-infrared band broadband emission rare earth doped bismuthate optical fiber glass, which comprises the following steps:
(1) weighing the following raw materials in percentage by mole: 75 mol% of Bi2O319 mol% of B2O34.4 mol% of Na2O, 0.3 mol% Er2O31.0 mol% of Yb2O30.3 mol% of Pr6O11And is ready for use; wherein, the purity of each raw material is required to be 99.99 percent by mass.
(2) Fully grinding the weighed raw materials in the step (1), uniformly mixing, pouring into a corundum crucible, and placing in a high-temperature furnace at 1050 ℃ for melting for 1h to obtain a glass solution.
(3) Taking out the corundum crucible filled with the glass solution from the high-temperature furnace, and carrying out quenching forming on a preheated graphite mold to obtain a glass sheet; wherein the temperature of the graphite mold heated in advance is 300 ℃.
(4) Putting the graphite mold poured with the glass solution into a muffle furnace for annealing, wherein the annealing process comprises the following steps: and transferring the graphite mold with the glass liquid poured into the graphite mold into a muffle furnace heated to 350 ℃, preserving heat for 2h, then cooling to room temperature at the speed of 10 ℃/h, and obtaining bismuthate optical fiber glass after annealing.
(5) Taking out the graphite mold with bismuthate optical fiber glass from the muffle furnace, and performing double-sided polishing treatment on the bismuthate optical fiber glass to obtain the bismuthate optical fiber glass with two polished sides of 1.5cm multiplied by 1.5 mm.
Example 2
The invention provides a near-infrared band broadband emission rare earth doped bismuthate optical fiber glass, which comprises the following steps:
(1) weighing the following raw materials in percentage by mole: 75 mol% of Bi2O319 mol% of B2O34.5 mol% of Na2O, 0.3 mol% Er2O31.0 mol% of Yb2O30.2 mol% of Pr6O11And is ready for use; wherein, the purity of each raw material is required to be 99.99 percent by mass.
(2) Fully grinding the weighed raw materials in the step (1), uniformly mixing, pouring into a corundum crucible, and placing in a high-temperature furnace at 1050 ℃ for melting for 1h to obtain a glass solution.
(3) Taking out the corundum crucible filled with the glass solution from the high-temperature furnace, and carrying out quenching forming on a preheated graphite mold to obtain a glass sheet; wherein the temperature of the graphite mold heated in advance is 300 ℃.
(4) Putting the graphite mold poured with the glass solution into a muffle furnace for annealing, wherein the annealing process comprises the following steps: and transferring the graphite mold with the glass liquid poured into the graphite mold into a muffle furnace heated to 350 ℃, preserving heat for 2h, then cooling to room temperature at the speed of 10 ℃/h, and obtaining bismuthate optical fiber glass after annealing.
(5) Taking out the graphite mold with bismuthate optical fiber glass from the muffle furnace, and performing double-sided polishing treatment on the bismuthate optical fiber glass to obtain the bismuthate optical fiber glass with two polished sides of 1.5cm multiplied by 1.5 mm.
Example 3
The invention provides a near-infrared band broadband emission rare earth doped bismuthate optical fiber glass, which comprises the following steps:
(1) weighing the following raw materials in percentage by mole: 74 mol% of Bi2O320 mol% of B2O34 mol% of Na2O, 0.4 mol% Er2O31.2 mol% of Yb2O30.4 mol% of Pr6O11And is ready for use; wherein, the purity of each raw material is required to be 99.99 percent by mass.
(2) Fully grinding the weighed raw materials in the step (1), uniformly mixing, pouring into a corundum crucible, and placing in a high-temperature furnace at 1080 ℃ for melting for 1h to obtain a glass solution.
(3) Taking out the corundum crucible filled with the glass solution from the high-temperature furnace, and carrying out quenching forming on a preheated graphite mold to obtain a glass sheet; wherein the temperature of the graphite mold heated in advance is 300 ℃.
(4) Putting the graphite mold poured with the glass solution into a muffle furnace for annealing, wherein the annealing process comprises the following steps: and transferring the graphite mold with the glass liquid poured into the graphite mold into a muffle furnace heated to 330 ℃, preserving heat for 2h, then cooling to room temperature at the speed of 8 ℃/h, and obtaining bismuthate optical fiber glass after annealing.
(5) Taking out the graphite mold with bismuthate optical fiber glass from the muffle furnace, and performing double-sided polishing treatment on the bismuthate optical fiber glass to obtain the bismuthate optical fiber glass with two polished sides of 1.5cm multiplied by 1.5 mm.
Example 4
The invention provides a near-infrared band broadband emission rare earth doped bismuthate optical fiber glass, which comprises the following steps:
(1) weighing the following raw materials in percentage by mole: 74.2 mol% of Bi2O319.3 mol% of B2O35 mol% of Na2O, 0.5 mol% Er2O30.8 mol% of Yb2O30.2 mol% of Pr6O11And is ready for use; wherein, the purity of each raw material is required to be 99.99 percent by mass.
(2) Fully grinding the weighed raw materials in the step (1), uniformly mixing, pouring into a corundum crucible, and placing in a high-temperature furnace at 1100 ℃ for melting for 1h to obtain a glass solution.
(3) Taking out the corundum crucible filled with the glass solution from the high-temperature furnace, and carrying out quenching forming on a preheated graphite mold to obtain a glass sheet; wherein the temperature of the graphite mold heated in advance is 300 ℃.
(4) Putting the graphite mold poured with the glass solution into a muffle furnace for annealing, wherein the annealing process comprises the following steps: and transferring the graphite mold with the glass liquid poured into the graphite mold into a muffle furnace heated to 340 ℃, preserving heat for 2h, then cooling to room temperature at the speed of 9 ℃/h, and obtaining bismuthate optical fiber glass after annealing.
(5) Taking out the graphite mold with bismuthate optical fiber glass from the muffle furnace, and performing double-sided polishing treatment on the bismuthate optical fiber glass to obtain the bismuthate optical fiber glass with two polished sides of 1.5cm multiplied by 1.5 mm.
The raw material B used in examples 1 to 4 was2O3Can be represented by H3BO3Form of (2) incorporation of Na2O may be Na2CO3Is incorporated in the form of (A), i.e. B2O3From twice the molar amount of H3BO3Instead of, Na2O is formed from an equimolar amount of Na2CO3Instead. Wherein H3BO3Decomposition at elevated temperatures may give B2O3Reaction of (1), Na2CO3Decomposition at high temperature can produce Na2The reaction of O may likewise be effected by adding B separately3+And Na+The function of (1).
The tellurate optical fiber glasses prepared in the embodiments 1 to 4 are respectively subjected to performance tests, and the fluorescence emission spectrum of the near-infrared band within the wavelength range of 1200-1700 nm is obtained by measurement under the excitation of pump light with the wavelength of 980 nm.
As shown in fig. 1 and 2The glass of example 1 was tested to obtain a fluorescence spectrum with a gain spectrum in the range of about 1200-1700 nm, and the spectrum had two luminescence centers, Pr at 1320nm3+Emission Peak, Er at 1530nm3+Ion emission peaks, wherein the half width at half height of fluorescence at 1320nm is 82nm, the half width at half height of fluorescence at 1530nm is 84nm, the half width at half height of fluorescence at 1320nm of the bismuthate optical fiber glass of test example 2 is 78nm, the half width at half height of fluorescence at 1530nm is 80nm, the half width at half height of fluorescence at 1320nm of the bismuthate optical fiber glass of test example 3 is 84nm, the half width at half height of fluorescence at 1530nm is 76nm, the half width at half height of fluorescence at 1320nm of the bismuthate optical fiber glass of test example 4 is 76nm, the half width at half height at 1530nm is 86nm, the zero dispersion O (1260-1360 nm) wave band and the lowest loss region C (1530-1565 nm) wave band of optical signal transmission are covered, and the gain is relatively flat, the glass has good application value in an optical communication system, good glass stability and excellent physical and chemical properties, and is beneficial to realizing broadband and high-gain amplification of 1.3 mu m and 1.5 mu m dual-band by an optical fiber amplifier.
The above description is only exemplary of the present application and should not be taken as limiting the present application, as any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present application should be included in the protection scope of the present application.