With growing interest in the mid‐infrared spectral region, dysprosium has recently been
revisited for efficient high‐performance infrared source development. Despite historically …

In this review paper some recent advances on optical sensors based on photonic crystal
fibres are reported. The different strategies successfully applied in order to obtain feasible …

Chalcogenide fibers have attracted much attention for multi-octave spanning
supercontinuum generation in the mid-infrared range. However, readily optimizing the …

Cross-relaxation processes in Pr 3+ doped selenide glass provided efficient population of
the lowest excited state 3 H 5 of Pr 3+ ions under pulsed pumping by 1.54 µm Er: glass …

This article deals with sulfur and selenium-based glasses doped with rare earth ions. It
reviews the most significant glass compositions and their related thermal and mechanical …

In this work, a novel mid-infrared continuous wave laser, based on a fluoroindate fiber co-
doped with holmium and neodymium, is designed to emit at, when pumped at. The laser is …

A gain-switched pulsed laser based on a commercial, heavily holmium-doped fluoroindate
glass fiber, is designed to emit in the middle-infrared range, at the wavelength. The laser …

In this article, for the first time, an efficient multi-wavelength fiber laser based on a Tm: Er: Yb:
Ho co-doped germanate glass, optically pumped at 980 nm wavelength and simultaneously …

A time-dependent numerical model of a dysprosiumdoped ZBLAN glass fiber is developed
in order to design a pulsed laser emitting at about 3 μm wavelength, by employing an in …

A review on the recent progress in modeling and fabrication of medium infrared (Mid-IR)
fiber lasers is reported. The main objective is to illustrate some recent examples of …