Patent 7298768 was granted and assigned to NP Photonics on November, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A heavy metal oxide glass selected from germanate, tellurite and bismuth oxide glasses provides a host for highly efficient Thulium doped 2 μm oxide glass and fiber lasers. The concentration of Thulium ions is high enough that energy transferred by the phenomenon of cross-relaxation will enhance laser emission at 2 μm and suppress emission at 1.5 μm so that 2 μm emission is dominant.