We report on the experimental evidence of noise amplification in an erbium-doped fiber laser in the vicinity of saddle-node, period-doubling, and crisis bifurcations. We demonstrate this interesting phenomenon by analyzing the laser bifurcation diagrams and power spectra. Numerical simulations on the base of an advanced laser model display good agreement with the experimental results.

A new method for improving color rendering index (CRI) and low correlated color temperature (CCT) in high‐power white‐light‐emitting diodes (WLEDs) is proposed. We used a configuration of phosphor‐in‐glass (PIG) and studied light output changes with the increment in concentration of yellow‐emitting Y3Al5O12:Ce3+ (YAG:Ce3+) phosphor. The PIG was coupled on the top of blue‐light‐emitting diodes (LED) chip (465 nm). To compensate the lack of red emission in the phosphor, Eu3+‐doped tellurium glass with different europium content was employed as a red emitter. The suitable contents of YAG:Ce3+ and Eu3+ were 7.5 weight percent (wt%) and 3 mol percent (mol%), respectively. The CRI value went from 72 to 82, whereas the CCT was reduced from 24 933 to 6434 K. The proposed structure can improve CCT as well as CRI of WLEDs just by placing a glass on top.

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