High average power thulium-doped silica fiber lasers: review of systems and concepts

A Sincore, JD Bradford, J Cook, L Shah… - IEEE Journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thulium-doped fiber lasers (TDFLs) have had the second highest growth in average output
power next to ytterbium-doped fiber lasers. This has been enabled by access to high power …

Super-broadband on-chip continuous spectral translation unlocking coherent optical communications beyond conventional telecom bands

D Kong, Y Liu, Z Ren, Y Jung, C Kim, Y Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Today's optical communication systems are fast approaching their capacity limits in the
conventional telecom bands. Opening up new wavelength bands is becoming an appealing …

Recent progress on power scaling and single-frequency operation of 1.7-μm thulium-doped fiber lasers

J Zhang, S Fu, Q Sheng, L Zhang, W Shi… - Optics & Laser …, 2023 - Elsevier
Efficient, narrow-linewidth Tm-doped fiber lasers operating in the 1.7 μm wavelength regime
are of significant importance for a wide range of applications. To achieve high-power 1.7-μm …

Laser-active fibers doped with bismuth for a wavelength region of 1.6–1.8 μm

SV Firstov, SV Alyshev, KE Riumkin… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The light sources operating in the spectral range 1600-1800 nm are of great interest
because of a number of potential scientific and practical applications. This stimulates a …

1.7-μm dissipative soliton Tm-doped fiber laser

JX Chen, XY Li, TJ Li, ZY Zhan, M Liu, C Li… - Photonics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We report on the dissipative soliton generation in a 1.7-μm net-normal dispersion Tm-doped
fiber laser by nonlinear polarization rotation technique. An intra-cavity bandpass filter was …

Ultra-short wavelength operation of thulium-doped fiber amplifiers and lasers

S Chen, Y Jung, S Alam, DJ Richardson… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We fabricate and characterize a germanium/thulium (Ge/Tm) co-doped silica fiber in order to
enhance the gain at the short wavelength edge of the thulium emission band (ie 1620-1660 …

Electronically tunable thulium-holmium mode-locked fiber laser for the 1700-1800 nm wavelength band

T Noronen, O Okhotnikov, R Gumenyuk - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a widely tunable, mode-locked fiber laser capable of producing sub-
picosecond pulses between 1705 and 1805 nm. The 100 nm tuning range is achieved by …

1.7 µm Tm-fiber chirped pulse amplification system with dissipative soliton seed laser

JX Chen, ZY Zhan, C Li, M Liu, AP Luo, P Zhou… - Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We report on a 1.7 µm Tm-fiber chirped pulse amplification (CPA) system by virtue of a
broadband dissipative soliton seed laser. The seed oscillator delivers the dissipative soliton …

[HTML][HTML] Fiber chirped pulse amplification of a short wavelength mode-locked thulium-doped fiber laser

C Li, X Wei, C Kong, S Tan, N Chen, J Kang… - Apl Photonics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Exploiting the promising third near-infrared optical window (1600–1870 nm) for deep
bioimaging is largely underdeveloped, mostly because of the lack of stable femtosecond …

[HTML][HTML] Design of an efficient thulium-doped fiber amplifier for dual-hop earth to satellite optical wireless links

J Mirza, A Atieh, MI Menhas, S Ghafoor… - Ain Shams Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Optical wireless communication (OWC) links enable high-speed data transmission between
earth stations and satellites. The propagation of optical signals through the atmosphere …