The success of high-power fiber lasers is fueled by maturation of active and passive fibers,
combined with the availability of high-power fiber-based components. In this contribution, we …

Over the past two decades, fiber laser technologies have matured to such an extent that they
have captured a large portion of the commercial laser marketplace. Yet, there still is a …

Silica glass doped with rare-earth ions remains one of the most frequently used materials for
fiber lasers and amplifiers, owing to various advantages such as high thermal resistance …

Fiber interferometric sensor can achieve sensing enhancement of various physical
quantities based on the optical vernier effect, but there are currently no proposed torsion …

A better understanding of stress effects that affect the bending losses in active and passive
optical fibers allows us to improve fiber system designs and helps to optimize refractive …

Glass optical fibers have reached a scale and commercial maturity that few, if any, other
material and form can claim. Furthermore, optical fibers not only enable a remarkably broad …

Sustained progress in the development of optical fibers has led to the present state where
further improvements in performance are limited by intrinsic optical nonlinearities. In order to …

The performance of optical fibers is dependent on both the fiber design and the materials
from which it is made. While much of the development over the past few decades has …

The purpose of this paper, Part IIA in the trilogy (Int J Appl Glass Sci. 2018; 9: 263‐277; Int J
Appl Glass Sci. 2018 (in press); Int J Appl Glass Sci. 2018 (in press)), is to describe the …

Specialty optical fibers employed in Brillouin-based distributed sensors are briefly reviewed.
The optical and acoustic waveguide properties of silicate glass optical fiber first are …