Recent advances in soft optical glass fiber and fiber lasers

WC Wang, B Zhou, SH Xu, ZM Yang… - Progress in Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
High-power single-frequency fiber lasers with exceptional properties, such as mode-hop-
free and narrower linewidths, lower noise, and compact all-fiber designs, have been …

Recent developments in lanthanide-doped mid-infrared fluoride fiber lasers

F Jobin, P Paradis, YO Aydin, T Boilard, V Fortin… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Mid-infrared fiber sources, emitting between 2.5 µm and 5.0 µm, are interesting for their
great potential in several application fields such as material processing, biomedicine …

Black phosphorus: a two-dimension saturable absorption material for mid-infrared Q-switched and mode-locked fiber lasers

J Li, H Luo, B Zhai, R Lu, Z Guo, H Zhang, Y Liu - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Black phosphorus (BP) as a novel class of two-dimension (2D) materials has recently
attracted enormous attention as a result of its unique physical and chemical features. The …

Watt-level fiber-based femtosecond laser source tunable from 2.8 to 3.6 μm

S Duval, JC Gauthier, LR Robichaud, P Paradis… - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
The development of compact and reliable ultrafast sources operating in the mid-infrared
region could lead to major advances in both fundamental and applied sciences. In this …

Versatile and widely tunable mid-infrared erbium doped ZBLAN fiber laser

O Henderson-Sapir, SD Jackson, DJ Ottaway - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We report on a long wavelength emitting rare earth doped fiber laser with the emission
centered at 3.5 μm and tunable across 450 nm. The longest wavelength emission was 3.78 …

5.6 W monolithic fiber laser at 3.55 μm

F Maes, V Fortin, M Bernier, R Vallée - Optics Letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We report, to the best of our knowledge, the first monolithic erbium-doped fluorozirconate
fiber laser bounded by two fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) operating at 3.55 μm. Its output …

Diode-pumped mid-infrared fiber laser with 50% slope efficiency

YO Aydın, V Fortin, F Maes, F Jobin, SD Jackson… - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Until now, the field of mid-infrared fiber laser research has been constrained by the limitation
imposed by the Stokes efficiency limit. The conversion of high-power diode light emission …

Watt-level dysprosium fiber laser at 3.15 μm with 73% slope efficiency

RI Woodward, MR Majewski, G Bharathan… - Optics letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Rare-earth-doped fiber lasers are emerging as promising high-power mid-infrared sources
for the 2.6–3.0 μm and 3.3–3.8 μm regions based on erbium and holmium ions. The …

Pulsed fluoride fiber lasers at 3 μm

X Zhu, G Zhu, C Wei, LV Kotov, J Wang… - Journal of the Optical …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Enormous performance gains have been made in fluoride-based fiber lasers operating
around 3 μm due to advances in fiber fabrication and improvements in high-power pump …

Resonant polymer ablation using a compact 3.44 μm fiber laser

C Frayssinous, V Fortin, JP Bérubé, A Fraser… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this experimental study, we investigate polymer ablation with a novel fiber laser source
emitting at 3.44 μm, a wavelength resonant with the Csingle bond H bond fundamental …