title: Cooperative luminescence and absorption in Ytterbium-doped silica fiber and the fiber nonlinear transmission coefficient at lambda = 980 nm with a regard to the Ytterbium ion-pairs' effect: Reply.
abstract: We reply to the comment [R. Paschotta and A.C. Tropper, Opt. Express, to be published (2006)] on our recent work reporting a study of the cooperative absorption and emission in heavily-doped Ytterbium silica fibers and mechanisms of the fiber nonlinear transmission coefficient reduction due to the Ytterbium ion-pairs' effect [A.V. Kir'yanov et al., Opt. Express, 14 (9), 3981 (2006)]. We provide some additional evidences for that our work hypotheses and conclusions.
authors.forename: Alexander V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Kir'yanov
authors.forename: Yuri O
authors.initials: YO
authors.lastname: Barmenkov