Abstract
The 1.5μm emission characteristics of stoichiometric LiNbO3 crystals with different Er3+ doping levels of 0.2, 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0mol% were investigated. All of the emission decays could be fitted by a single exponential curve. The lifetimes of the 1.5μm transition (I13∕24→I15∕24) were measured to be 3.0–3.2ms, which are about 25% longer than those reported for conventional Er-doped congruent LiNbO3. Our analysis showed that the longer lifetime in stoichiometric LiNbO3 is likely to originate from the reduced density of intrinsic defects.
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