Invited paper: Short pulse generation in mid-IR fiber lasers |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Institute of Lightwave Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China;2. Key Lab of All Optical Network & Advanced Telecommunication Network of EMC, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China;3. China Academy of Telecommunication Research of MIIT, China;4. Wuhan Vocational College of Software and Engineering, Wuhan 430205, China;1. State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201899, China;2. Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;3. Department of Optoelectronic Engineering, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China;4. Provincial Engineering and Technical Center of Light Manipulations & Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Device, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China;1. China Key Laboratory of Laser & Infrared System (Ministry of Education), Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laser Technology and Application, School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China;2. Institute of Novel Semiconductors, State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China;1. NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681, USA;2. National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA 23666, USA;3. Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA 23666, USA |
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| Abstract: | Mode-locked fiber lasers emitting short pulses of light at wavelengths of 2 μm and longer are reviewed. Rare-earth doped silica and fluoride fiber lasers operating in the mode-locked regime in the mid-IR (2–5 μm) have attracted attention due to their usefulness to spectroscopy, nonlinear optics, laser surgery, remote sensing and ranging to name a few. While silica fiber lasers are fundamentally limited to emission wavelengths below 2.2 μm, fluoride fiber lasers can reach to nearly 4 μm. The relative infancy of fluoride fibers as compared to silica fibers means the field has work to do to translate the mode-locking techniques to systems beyond 2 μm. However, with the recent demonstration of a stable, mode-locked 3 μm fiber laser, the possibility of achieving high performance 3 μm class mode-locked fiber lasers looks promising. |
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| Keywords: | Ultrafast lasers Mid-IR lasers Fiber lasers Rare-earth doped fibers |
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