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 …

Review of femtosecond-laser-inscribed fiber Bragg gratings: fabrication technologies and sensing applications

J He, B Xu, X Xu, C Liao, Y Wang - Photonic Sensors, 2021 - Springer
Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) is the most widely used optical fiber sensor due to its compact
size, high sensitivity, and easiness for multiplexing. Conventional FBGs fabricated by using …

Femtosecond fiber lasers reach the mid-infrared

S Duval, M Bernier, V Fortin, J Genest, M Piché… - Optica, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Ultrafast fiber lasers operating in the near-infrared have revolutionized laser science by
enabling numerous breakthroughs in both fundamental science and industrial applications …

Advances, challenges and prospects of visible fiber lasers in display technologies

W Li, W Mi, LJ Chen - Displays, 2024 - Elsevier
Especially for displays, visible-wavelength lasers are in high demand for a wide range of
applications. Active research and development have been devoted to laser-based displays …

2-m Narrow Linewidth All-Fiber DFB Fiber Bragg Grating Lasers for Ho- and Tm-Doped Fiber-Amplifier Applications

W Walasik, D Traoré, A Amavigan… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We report the design and performance of a single frequency all-fiber distributed feedback
(DFB) laser sources employing fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) emitting in the 2-m region …

Widely tunable single-frequency Er-doped ZBLAN fiber laser with emission from 3.37 to 3.72 µm

L Zhang, S Fu, Q Sheng, X Luo, J Zhang, W Shi… - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a widely tunable single-frequency Er-doped ZBLAN fiber laser operating on
a^ 4F_9/2?^ 4I_9/2 transition band. An uncoated germanium (Ge) plate serves as a narrow …

[HTML][HTML] Fluoride and chalcogenide glass fiber components for mid-infrared lasers and amplifiers: Breakthroughs, challenges, and future perspective

K Grebnev, B Perminov, TT Fernandez, A Fuerbach… - APL Photonics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Since the early 1990s, when researchers began to explore rare-earth-doped mid-infrared
glass fibers, fiber laser systems have emerged as promising high-brightness light sources …

High flexibility fbg inscribing by point-by-point method via femtosecond laser: Technology, progress, and challenges

J Zhang, Q Zhao, D Du, Y Zhu, S Zheng, D Chen… - Materials Today …, 2024 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT FBG is a reflective structure present in the fiber with periodically perturbed
effective refractive index. With the emergence of femtosecond lasers, the point-by-point …

Towards real-time active imaging of greenhouse gases using tunable mid-infrared all-fiber lasers

LC Michaud, T Boilard, S Magnan-Saucier… - Applied Optics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We report a tunable all-fiber laser emitting a maximum output power of 2.55 W around 3240
nm. The fiber laser cavity based on a fluoride fiber doped with dysprosium ions yields an …

Advanced distributed feedback lasers based on composite fiber heavily doped with erbium ions

MI Skvortsov, AA Wolf, AA Vlasov, KV Proskurina… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Specially designed composite heavily Er3+-doped fiber in combination with unique point-by-
point inscription technology by femtosecond pulses at 1,026 nm enables formation of …