Functional fibers and functional fiber-based components for high-power lasers

X Chen, T Yao, L Huang, Y An, H Wu, Z Pan… - Advanced Fiber …, 2023 - Springer
The success of high-power fiber lasers is fueled by maturation of active and passive fibers,
combined with the availability of high-power fiber-based components. In this contribution, we …

Taper-fused side pump combiner for all-fiber lasers and amplifiers: A review

C Lei, Z Li, H Zhang, Z Chen, J Hou - Optics & Laser Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
A taper-fused side pump technique, which is based on the direct fusion-splicing of one or
several tapered pump fibers and a double-clad signal fiber, is a potential side pump …

Fused optical fiber combiner based on indium fluoride glass: perspectives for mid-IR applications

A Annunziato, F Anelli, PLP Du Teilleul, S Cozic… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
For the first time, to the best of our knowledge, the design and characterization of a 3× 1
fused fiber combiner based on multimode step-index fluoroindate optical fibers (InF_3) has …

Low-Loss Fluoride Optical Fiber Coupler for Mid-Infrared Applications

F Anelli, A Annunziato, AM Loconsole… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For the first time, a 2× 2 optical fiber coupler based on indium fluoride optical fibers is
designed via coupled mode theory, fabricated via fused biconical tapering technique, and …

Power-over-fiber using double-clad fibers

M Matsuura - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Power-over-fiber (PWoF) is an attractive technology for transmitting power utilizing optical
fibers. Because optical fibers are nonconductive power lines, and can transmit data signals …

High-power single-frequency fiber amplifiers: progress and challenge

C Li, Y Tao, M Jiang, P Ma, W Liu, R Su, J Xu… - Chinese Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Unlike conventional continuous-wave lasers with wide spectra, the amplification of single-
frequency lasers in optical fibers is much more difficult owing to the ultra-high power spectral …

Highly sensitive hybrid structured based dodecagonal core with double layer hexagonal cladding photonic crystal fiber for food oil health sensing

MS Islam, AHMI Ferdous, M Tamilselvi, M Swarna… - Journal of Optics, 2024 - Springer
The dodecagonal hollow core PCF-based edible oil sensor is put forward in this paper and
quantitatively investigated over the terahertz regime. A professional tool based on the finite …

Fusion splicing of silica hollow core anti-resonant fibers with polarization maintaining fibers

Y Min, A Filipkowski, G Stępniewski… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fusion splicing of solid-core microstructured silica fibers has been one of the key enablers
which opened practical applications of these structures in ultrafast light sources or fiber …

[HTML][HTML] Optically managing thermal energy in high-power yb-doped fiber lasers and amplifiers: a brief review

N Yu, J Ballato, MJF Digonnet… - Current optics and …, 2022 - coppjournal.org
Fiber lasers have made remarkable progress over the past three decades, and they now
serve farreaching applications and have even become indispensable in many technology …

Self-starting mode-locking in an all-PM Yb-doped fiber laser oscillator enabled by a 3x3 nonlinear optical lossy loop mirror

M Pielach, A Jamrozik, K Krupa, Y Stepanenko - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Ultrafast fiber oscillators based on loop mirror saturable absorbers often suffer from a
problematic self-starting mode-locking operation. It is usually necessary to provide an …