The rise in output power from rare-earth-doped fiber sources over the past decade, via the
use of cladding-pumped fiber architectures, has been dramatic, leading to a range of fiber …

In this review paper, we present radiation effects on silica-based optical fibers. We first
describe the mechanisms inducing microscopic and macroscopic changes under irradiation …

Over the past two decades, fiber laser technologies have matured to such an extent that they
have captured a large portion of the commercial laser marketplace. Yet, there still is a …

Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, Second Edition discusses the essential
principles, operating characteristics, and current technology of the main fiber laser and …

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 have demonstrated a high-power and high-efficiency erbium: ytterbium (Er: Yb) codoped
fiber laser that produces 297 W of continuous-wave output at 1567 nm. The slope efficiency …

Systematic studies of cooperative upconversion and Yb^ 3+–Er^ 3+ energy transfer in newly
developed phosphate glasses were performed by a rate-equation formalism. The …

We describe the design and performance of cladding-pumped silica fiber lasers with high
continuous-wave output powers and broad wavelength tunability in the 1, 1.5, and 2 μm …

We describe erbium-ytterbium co-doped fiber lasers in different free-running and tunable
configurations. The lasers were cladding-pumped by high-power multimode diode sources …

An Er: Yb codoped fiber amplifier chain for the generation of pulses for coherent lidar
applications at a wavelength near 1.5 µm is reported. The final 1.8-m-long power …