Recent developments in mid-infrared fiber lasers: Status and challenges

Z Wang, B Zhang, J Liu, Y Song, H Zhang - Optics & Laser Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
The mid-infrared fiber lasers in the 2–3.5 μm spectral regions have been extensively applied
in many application fields, such as biomedicine, telecommunications, military and nonlinear …

Advances and Challenges of Ultrafast Fiber Lasers in 2–4 µm Mid‐Infrared Spectral Regions

Y Zhang, K Wu, Z Guang, B Guo, D Qiao… - Laser & Photonics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Mid‐infrared (mid‐IR) ultrafast lasers are widely employed in biomedicine,
molecular spectroscopy, material processing, and nonlinear optics. With the improvement of …

Passively Q-switched mode-locked thulium-doped fiber laser using nonlinear polarization rotation technique

M Durán-Sánchez, EA Espinosa-De-La-Cruz… - Ceramics …, 2023 - Elsevier
A Q-switched mode-locked (QML) thulium-doped fiber laser based on nonlinear polarization
rotation (NPR) and negative group velocity dispersion (GVD) is demonstrated. This regime …

Noise-like pulse generation from a thulium-doped fiber laser using nonlinear polarization rotation with different net anomalous dispersion

S Liu, F Yan, Y Li, L Zhang, Z Bai, H Zhou… - Photonics research, 2016 - opg.optica.org
A mode-locked thulium-doped fiber laser (TDFL) based on nonlinear polarization rotation
(NPR) with different net anomalous dispersion is demonstrated. When the cavity dispersion …

Tunable and switchable dual-wavelength mode-locked Tm3+-doped fiber laser based on a fiber taper

Y Wang, J Li, B Zhai, Y Hu, K Mo, R Lu, Y Liu - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a self-starting dual-wavelength mode-locked fiber laser at a 2 μm spectral
region by using a fiber taper in a Tm^ 3+-doped ring fiber cavity. The fiber taper fabricated …

Impact of pump power on Lyot filtering effect in mode-locked fiber lasers

L Zhou, L Liu, Y Han, H Wen, Y Li, Q Li, C Ma… - Chaos, Solitons & …, 2025 - Elsevier
Filtering effects, which can achieve multi-wavelength in mode-locked fiber lasers, are
currently being investigated, including communications and industry. In this study, we …

Kelly sideband suppression and wavelength tuning of a conventional soliton in a Tm-doped hybrid mode-locked fiber laser with an all-fiber Lyot filter

J Li, Y Wang, H Luo, Y Liu, Z Yan, Z Sun… - Photonics Research, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a stable conventional soliton in a Tm-doped hybrid mode-locked fiber laser
by employing a homemade all-fiber Lyot filter (AFLF) and a single-wall carbon nanotube …

Real-time observation of stationary and pulsating noise-like vector pulses in a fiber laser

K Li, X Wang, X Geng, M Lu, M Fu, Y Fan, S Li - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Rapid progress in real-time measurement technology has uncovered varieties of transient
pulse dynamics. Here, we report the vector nature of noise-like pulse (NLP) in a passive …

Passively Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers Based on Nonlinearity at 2-μm Band

T Wang, W Ma, Q Jia, Q Su, P Liu… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
2-μm fiber lasers are of wide potential applications in the fields of radar, sensing, and free-
space communications. We introduced a simple approach to generate passively mode …

All-polarization maintaining noise-like pulse from mode-locked thulium-doped fiber laser based on nonlinear loop mirror

Y Zhang, Y Zheng, X Su, J Peng, H Yu… - IEEE Photonics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a figure-eight all-polarization maintaining thulium-doped mode-
locked fiber laser based on a nonlinear optical loop mirror operating at noise-like pulse …