Fiber lasers have seen progressive developments in terms of spectral coverage and
linewidth, output power, pulse energy, and ultrashort pulse width since the first …

In this paper we present a review of holmium-doped silica fibre based sources. We discuss
recent demonstrations of an efficient cladding-pumped fibre geometry and the impact it has …

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 on the utilization of a novel Tm: fiber laser source for mid-IR ZnGeP_2 (ZGP)
optical parametric oscillator (OPO) pumping. The pump laser is built in a master oscillator …

A high-power thulium (Tm)-doped fiber chirped-pulse amplification system emitting a record
compressed average output power of 152 W and 4 MW peak power is demonstrated. This …

Tm-based fiber-laser systems are an attractive concept for the development of high-
performance laser sources in the spectral region around 2 μm wavelength. Here we present …

A high-power, wavelength-tunable, all-fiber integrated thulium-doped fiber laser (TDFL) at 2
μm is presented. The TDFL has a compact configuration which only consists of a low power …

We report a gain-switched diode-seeded thulium doped fiber master oscillator power
amplifier (MOPA) producing up to 295-kW picosecond pulses (35 ps) at a repetition rate of 1 …

We review recent advances in the development of high power short-and ultrashort pulsed
Thulium-doped fiber amplifier (TDFA) systems seeded by semiconductor laser diodes at …

Microstructured optical fiber-based sensors (MOF) have been widely developed finding
numerous applications in various fields of photonics, biotechnology, and medicine. High …