Generation, optimization, and application of ultrashort femtosecond pulse in mode-locked fiber lasers

Y Han, Y Guo, B Gao, C Ma, R Zhang… - Progress in Quantum …, 2020 - Elsevier
Ultrafast femtosecond mode-locked fiber laser plays an indispensable role in medical
imaging, space ranging, ophthalmology, terahertz spectroscopy, material micromachining …

Fiber-based sources of coherent MIR radiation: key advances and future prospects

SD Jackson, RK Jain - Optics express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The mid-infrared (MIR) represents a large portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is
progressively being exploited for an enormous number of applications. Thermal imaging …

Watt-level dysprosium fiber laser at 3.15 μm with 73% slope efficiency

RI Woodward, MR Majewski, G Bharathan… - Optics letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Rare-earth-doped fiber lasers are emerging as promising high-power mid-infrared sources
for the 2.6–3.0 μm and 3.3–3.8 μm regions based on erbium and holmium ions. The …

Mode-locked dysprosium fiber laser: picosecond pulse generation from 2.97 to 3.30 μm

RI Woodward, MR Majewski, SD Jackson - APL photonics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Mode-locked fiber laser technology to date has been limited to sub-3 μm wavelengths
despite significant application-driven demand for compact picosecond and femtosecond …

Advances and Challenges of Ultrafast Fiber Lasers in 2–4 µm Mid‐Infrared Spectral Regions

Y Zhang, K Wu, Z Guang, B Guo, D Qiao… - Laser & Photonics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Mid‐infrared (mid‐IR) ultrafast lasers are widely employed in biomedicine,
molecular spectroscopy, material processing, and nonlinear optics. With the improvement of …

Recent advances of low-dimensional materials in Mid-and Far-infrared photonics

H Chen, L Gao, Z Qin, Y Ge, K Khan, Y Song… - Applied Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Since the mid-(2–20 μm) and far-infrared (20–1000 μm) regions cover the vibration
and rotation characteristic “fingerprint” spectra of many gas molecules and three …

Sub-two-cycle octave-spanning mid-infrared fiber laser

J Huang, M Pang, X Jiang, F Köttig, D Schade, W He… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Compact and powerful ultrafast light sources at high pulse repetition rates, based on mode-
locked near infrared fiber lasers, are now widely available and are being used in …

Ultrafast Dy3+:fluoride fiber laser beyond 3 μm

Y Wang, F Jobin, S Duval, V Fortin, P Laporta… - Optics letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We report a passively mode-locked Dy^ 3+: fluoride fiber laser emitting around 3.1 μm
based on the nonlinear polarization evolution technique in a ring configuration, using in …

Rare-earth ions-doped mid-infrared (2.7–3 µm) bulk lasers: a review

H Nie, F Wang, J Liu, K Yang, B Zhang… - Chinese Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Mid-infrared (MIR) laser sources operating in the 2.7–3 µm spectral region have attracted
extensive attention for many applications due to the unique features of locating at the …

Dysprosium-doped ZBLAN fiber laser tunable from 2.8 μm to 3.4 μm, pumped at 1.7 μm

MR Majewski, RI Woodward, SD Jackson - Optics letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a mid-infrared dysprosium-doped fluoride fiber laser with a continuously
tunable output range of 573 nm, pumped by a 1.7 μm Raman fiber laser. To the best of our …