The recent demonstration of rare-earth-doped fiber lasers with a continuous wave output
power well above the kilowatt level with diffraction-limited beam quality has proven that fiber …

Nanomaterials with broadband nonlinear responses have attracted wide attention in
ultrafast photonics, which have proven to be reliable saturable absorbers to generate …

We provide a perspective review over the recent development of short-pulsed Raman fiber
lasers (RFLs), which can provide laser emissions with flexible wavelengths for a variety of …

The fiber laser, with its humble beginning in the late 1980s, has undergone tremendous
development in the past decade or so, transforming itself from a research curiosity to a major …

We report active Q-switching of an all-fiber laser using a Bragg grating based acousto-optic
modulator. Q-switching is performed by modulating a fiber Bragg grating with an extensional …

We describe the design and performance of cladding-pumped silica fiber lasers with high
continuous-wave output powers and broad wavelength tunability in the 1, 1.5, and 2 μm …

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 …

Q-switched operation of a 2 μm Tm3+-doped silica fiber laser using an electro-optic
modulation (EOM) is described for the first time. A larger multimode core of 17 μm diameter …

Recent advances in fiber and laser diode technologies have led to kilowatt-power fiber
lasers with output beams of single transverse mode quality. Given the significant practical …

Q-switched fiber lasers are integral tools in science, industry, and medicine due to their
advantages of flexibility, compactness, and reliability. All-optical strategies to generate …