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 …

Silica glass doped with rare-earth ions remains one of the most frequently used materials for
fiber lasers and amplifiers, owing to various advantages such as high thermal resistance …

The increasing fields of applications for modern optical fibers present great challenges to the
material properties and the processing technology of fiber optics. This paper gives an …

To incorporate sufficient pumping power, a large-scale Yb-doped aluminophosphosilicate
(Al_2O_3-P_2O_5-SiO_2, APS) fiber with 30-μm core and 900-μm inner clad in diameter, ie …

By using modified chemical vapor deposition system combined with chelate precursor
doping technique, we report on the fabrication and characterization of Yb-doped …

Two-and three-core photonic crystal fibers are prepared by using the same photonic crystal
fiber preform structure. Not only the fiber diameter is reduced to standard size of 125 μ m, but …

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 …

We report on the preparation and optical characteristics of an Yb^ 3+-doped large core silica
fiber with the active core prepared from nanoporous silica rod by the glass phase-separation …

Recent advances in high-power fiber lasers have imposed several pairs of higher
requirements on fiber materials, such as larger fiber core/higher homogeneity and higher …

With continuous efforts and practical managing experiences, the chelate precursor doping
method has been justified as an effective way to dope rare-earth ions into silica host …