Optical Properties of Ce-Doped Silica Fiber

Silica-based luminescent materials have gained significant attention over the last several years primarily to be used under integrated photonics. In this context Ce-doped silica are particularly interesting due to their potential to be used as Si-based light emitting sources [1]. In this work we have prepared a Ce-doped silica fiber that is drawn from a preform which is prepared using standard MCVD technology. In this work we study the spontaneous lifetime and fluorescence parameters of a Ce-doped silica fiber when pumped with 405 nm continuous wave laser.