Fiber laser technology has been demonstrated as a versatile and reliable approach to laser
source manufacturing with a wide range of applicability in various fields ranging from …

The first rare-earth-doped fiber lasers were operated in the early 1960s, and produced a few
milliwatts at a wavelength around 1 mum. Since the beginning of the decade, an enormous …

We analyze the scalability of diffraction-limited fiber lasers considering thermal, non-linear,
damage and pump coupling limits as well as fiber mode field diameter (MFD) restrictions …

A new measurement technique, capable of quantifying the number and type of modes
propagating in large-mode-area fibers is both proposed and demonstrated. The …

A novel type of few-mode fiber, characterized by an inverse-parabolic graded-index profile,
is proposed for the robust transmission of cylindrical vector modes as well as modes …

Multi-cladding optical fibers to be used in the context of fiber amplifiers and fiberlasers are
described herein. Embodiments of optical fibers include a rare-earth doped core into which …

The development of optical fibers with suspended cores has enabled the demonstration of a
range of powerful new techniques for chemical and biological sensing. Here the fabrication …

We propose a novel approach of making large effective area laser fiber with higher
threshold for the stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) using Al/Ge co-doping in the fiber core …

We have demonstrated a highly efficient cladding-pumped ytterbium-doped fiber laser,
generating> 2.1 kW of continuous-wave output power at 1.1 μm with 74% slope efficiency …

The impact of Higher-Order Mode content on beam quality in large mode area fibers
supporting several guided modes is carefully investigated. It is shown that even excellent …