Functional fibers and functional fiber-based components for high-power lasers

X Chen, T Yao, L Huang, Y An, H Wu, Z Pan… - Advanced Fiber …, 2023 - Springer
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 …

Loss in hollow-core optical fibers: mechanisms, scaling rules, and limits

E Numkam Fokoua, S Abokhamis Mousavi… - Advances in Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Over the past few years, progress in hollow-core optical fiber technology has reduced the
attenuation of these fibers to levels comparable to those of all-solid silica-core single-mode …

Solar fuel production from hydrogen sulfide: an upstream energy perspective

M Ferree, J Kosco, F Laquai… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogen sulfide is readily available in vast quantities in the subsurface as a byproduct of
industrial processes. Hydrogen evolution from H2S can transform this highly toxic gas into a …

2.2 kW single-mode narrow-linewidth laser delivery through a hollow-core fiber

MA Cooper, J Wahlen, S Yerolatsitis, D Cruz-Delgado… - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Antiresonant hollow-core fibers (AR-HCFs) have opened up exciting possibilities for high-
energy and high-power laser delivery because of their exceptionally low nonlinearities and …

Design and fabrication of a chalcogenide hollow-core anti-resonant fiber for mid-infrared applications

H Zhang, Y Chang, Y Xu, C Liu, X **ao, J Li, X Ma… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Chalcogenide hollow-core anti-resonant fibers (HC-ARFs) are a promising propagation
medium for high-power mid-infrared (3-5? µm) laser delivery, while their properties have not …

Azimuthal confinement: the missing ingredient in understanding confinement loss in antiresonant, hollow-core fibers

LR Murphy, D Bird - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Antiresonant, hollow-core optical fibers are currently challenging or even exceeding the loss
performance of conventional solid-core fibers. Despite this progress, there are aspects of the …

Power over fiber and analog radio over fiber simultaneous transmission over long distance in single mode, multicore, and hollow core fibers

R Altuna, Y Jung, P Petropoulos… - Laser & Photonics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, a novel study of the feasibility of shared Power over Fiber (PoF) and Fifth‐
Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) Analog Radio over Fiber (ARoF) over long distance …

Toward in-fiber nonlinear silicon photonics

L Shen, M Huang, S Sun, D Wu, Z Yan, H Ren… - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Silicon core fibers (SCFs) offer an exciting opportunity to harness the nonlinear functionality
of the semiconductor material within the excellent waveguiding properties of optical fiber …

Loss in hollow-core fibers: mechanisms, scaling rules, and limits

E Numkam Fokoua… - Advances in Optics …, 2023 - eprints.soton.ac.uk
Over the past few years, progress in hollow-core optical fiber technology has reduced the
attenuation of these fibers to levels comparable to those of all-solid silica-core single-mode …

Limits of coupling efficiency into hollow-core antiresonant fibres

V Zuba, HCH Mulvad, R Slavík, H Sakr… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We theoretically explore the fundamental limits on the efficiency of coupling light into hollow-
core antiresonant fibres. We study in particular the coupling of a free-space Gaussian beam …