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 …

Mid-infrared fiber sources, emitting between 2.5 µm and 5.0 µm, are interesting for their
great potential in several application fields such as material processing, biomedicine …

Broadband laser light sources in the mid-infrared region attract enormous interest due to the
plethora of applications they are enabling, including multispecies trace gas detection, free …

There is great interest in sources of coherent radiation in the mid-wave infrared (3–5 μm),
and instruments based on fiber can offer major practical advantages. This range, and much …

The development of compact and reliable ultrafast sources operating in the mid-infrared
region could lead to major advances in both fundamental and applied sciences. In this …

The recent demonstrations of ultrafast mid-infrared fiber lasers emitting sub-picosecond
pulses at 2.8 μm have created an exciting potential for a range of applications including mid …

Abstract Mid‐infrared (mid‐IR) ultrafast lasers are widely employed in biomedicine,
molecular spectroscopy, material processing, and nonlinear optics. With the improvement of …

With growing interest in the mid‐infrared spectral region, dysprosium has recently been
revisited for efficient high‐performance infrared source development. Despite historically …

We demonstrated a femtosecond mode-locked Er: ZrF_4-BaF_2-LaF_3-AlF_3-NaF (Er:
ZBLAN) fiber laser at 2.8 μm based on the nonlinear polarization rotation technique. The …

We report the demonstration of a fiber-based supercontinuum source delivering up to 825
mW of average output power between 2.5 and 5.0 µm generated in all-normal dispersion …