Recent progress on mid-infrared pulsed fiber lasers and the applications

X Li, X Huang, X Hu, X Guo, Y Han - Optics & Laser Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
In the past two decades, great progress has been made in the development of inexpensive,
compact and efficient mid-infrared pulsed fiber laser Q-switched, mode-locked, and gain …

[HTML][HTML] Review of mid-infrared mode-locked laser sources in the 2.0 μm–3.5 μm spectral region

J Ma, Z Qin, G Xie, L Qian, D Tang - Applied Physics Reviews, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Ultrafast laser sources operating in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) region, which contains the
characteristic fingerprint spectra of many important molecules and transparent windows of …

Applications of Few-Layer Nb2C MXene: Narrow-Band Photodetectors and Femtosecond Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers

L Gao, C Ma, S Wei, AV Kuklin, H Zhang, H Ågren - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Although the physicochemical properties of niobium carbide (Nb2C) have been widely
investigated, their exploration in the field of photoelectronics is still at the infancy stage with …

Mid infrared gas spectroscopy using efficient fiber laser driven photonic chip-based supercontinuum

D Grassani, E Tagkoudi, H Guo, C Herkommer… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Directly accessing the middle infrared, the molecular functional group spectral region, via
supercontinuum generation processes based on turn-key fiber lasers offers the undeniable …

Mid-infrared octave spanning supercontinuum generation to 8.5 μm in silicon-germanium waveguides

M Sinobad, C Monat, B Luther-Davies, P Ma… - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Efficient on-chip molecule and bio-agent detection can be achieved by accessing strong
molecular absorption lines in the mid-infrared, but it requires high output power broadband …

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 …

GaAs-chip-based mid-infrared supercontinuum generation

G Granger, M Bailly, H Delahaye, C Jimenez… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
The mid-infrared spectral region opens up new possibilities for applications such as
molecular spectroscopy with high spatial and frequency resolution. For example, the mid …

Black phosphorus Q-switched and mode-locked mid-infrared Er: ZBLAN fiber laser at 3.5 μm wavelength

Z Qin, T Hai, G Xie, J Ma, P Yuan, L Qian, L Li… - Optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
With the proposal of dual-wavelength pumping (DWP) scheme, DWP Er: ZBLAN fiber lasers
at 3.5 μm have become a fascinating area of research. However, limited by the absence of …

Mid-infrared multispectral tissue imaging using a chalcogenide fiber supercontinuum source

CR Petersen, N Prtljaga, M Farries, J Ward, B Napier… - Optics letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We present, to the best of our knowledge, the first demonstration of mid-infrared
supercontinuum (SC) tissue imaging at wavelengths beyond 5 μm using a fiber-coupled SC …

Recent developments in mid-infrared fiber lasers: Status and challenges

Z Wang, B Zhang, J Liu, Y Song, H Zhang - Optics & Laser Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
The mid-infrared fiber lasers in the 2–3.5 μm spectral regions have been extensively applied
in many application fields, such as biomedicine, telecommunications, military and nonlinear …