Towards high-power mid-IR light source tunable from 3.8 to 4.5 µm by HBr-filled hollow-core silica fibres

Z Zhou, Z Wang, W Huang, Y Cui, H Li… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Fibre lasers operating at the mid-IR have attracted enormous interest due to the plethora of
applications in defence, security, medicine, and so on. However, no continuous-wave (CW) …

Nanosecond Fiber Laser Step-Tunable From 3.87 to 4.5 μm in HBr-Filled Hollow-Core Silica Fibers

Z Zhou, Y Cui, W Huang, H Li, M Wang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report here a wavelength widely step-tunable nanosecond 4 μm fiber laser based on
HBr-filled hollow-core fibers (HCFs), which is pumped by an acousto-optic modulated …

Absorption efficiency analysis and optical resonator simulation of Ho: YLF laser pumped with Tm: fiber laser

MB Tooski, A Maleki, AE Majd, H Ebadian - Laser Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, a Tm: fiber laser pumped Ho: YLF laser is simulated. The absorption efficiency,
optimum crystal length, and optical resonator are analytically studied and simulated using …

Optics in Africa: introduction

A Forbes, R Cherif, A Dudley, AM Dikande - JOSA B, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Africa has a long history in optics, but decades of turmoil have seen optical science in Africa
advance only slowly, punching far below its weight. But a younger generation of scientists …