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Fiber Lasers: Recent Advances and Applications
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Fiber Lasers: Recent Advances and Applications

A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "Optoelectronics and Optical Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 1356

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Lau Kuen Yao

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State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Interests: optical fibers; fiber laser; nonlinear optics
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Dr. Jiancheng Zheng

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College of Information Engineering, Sanming University, Sanming 365004, China
Interests: fiber laser; laser technology

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

As one of the most popular laser sources today, fiber lasers are well developed for a plethora of applications, such as optical communications, sensing, biomedical, spectroscopy and imaging, material processing, micromachining, etc. A fiber laser can be a linear or ring-type laser with doped fiber as gain medium, operating in narrow linewidths, single frequencies, as well as Q-switched and mode-locked regimes. To date, there is a growing demand for a high-performance fiber laser with higher operating powers, higher slope efficiency, better beam quality, and more.

The fiber laser concept is developed by realizing upconversion lasers due to the need for high pump intensities during laser transition operations. Such high pump intensities can be well maintained over long lengths, which offers a higher gain efficiency for operations across low-gain transitions. The gain transitions are achieved through the use of active optical fibers (such as doped silica fibers) and heavy-metal fluoride fibers (such as ZBLAN).

The Special Issue aims to present original state-of-the-art research articles dealing with recent advances and applications of fiber lasers. Researchers are invited to submit their contributions to this Special Issue. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Fiber lasers;
  • Narrow linewidth fiber lasers;
  • Single longitudinal mode fiber lasers;
  • Q-switched fiber lasers;
  • Mode-locked fiber lasers;
  • Multiwavelength fiber lasers;
  • Brillouin fiber lasers;
  • Raman fiber lasers;
  • Fiber lasers with semiconductor optical amplifiers;
  • High-power fiber lasers;
  • Modeling of fiber lasers;
  • Supercontinuum fiber lasers;
  • Applications of fiber lasers.

Dr. Lau Kuen Yao
Dr. Jiancheng Zheng
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • fiber lasers
  • optical fibers
  • laser resonators
  • advances of fiber laser
  • fiber laser applications

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Bismuth-Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers Operating from O- to U-Band: Current State of the Art and Outlook
by Sergey Alyshev, Aleksandr Khegai, Andrey Umnikov and Sergei Firstov
Photonics 2024, 11(7), 663; https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics11070663 - 17 Jul 2024
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The development of unique optical materials that provide amplification and lasing in new wavelength ranges is a major scientific problem, the solution of which is becoming the basis for the emergence of new optical technologies, which are primarily targeting the expanding of operating [...] Read more.
The development of unique optical materials that provide amplification and lasing in new wavelength ranges is a major scientific problem, the solution of which is becoming the basis for the emergence of new optical technologies, which are primarily targeting the expanding of operating wavelengths in silica glass. In fact, one of the notable advances in the field of fiber optics over the past two decades has been the production of a new type of laser-active fibers (namely bismuth-doped fibers), which has made it possible to cover previously inaccessible (for rare-earth-doped fibers) spectral ranges, in particular O-, E-, S-, and U-telecom bands. The advance in this direction has led to further growth of the technological capabilities in the telecom industry for amplification and generation of optical radiation in various wavelength bands, which will result in the near future to overcoming the problem known as “capacity crunch” by means of expanding the data transmission range. Recently, bismuth-doped fibers have been actively studying in order to improve their characteristics, which would allow for efficient implementation of optical devices based on bismuth-doped fibers (BDFs) with deployed telecommunications systems. This is one of the dynamically developing areas, where progress has already manifested in form of emergence of new achievements, in particular commercially available various types of BDFs, as well as a series of novel fiber-optic amplifiers for the O- and E-bands. In this review, a number of scientific studies that have already led to a noticeable progress in the field of optical properties of BDFs and the practical implementation of optical devices (lasers and amplifiers) based on them are presented and discussed, with much attention to the achievements of recent years. Full article
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Planned Papers

The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.

Title: Characterization of holmium-doped fiber using acousto-optic modulator and taking into account the effects of concentration and fiber length
Authors: Yuri Barmenkov; Pablo Muniz-Cánovas; Leonardo Morales-Padilla
Affiliation: All authors are from Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, A.C., Loma del Bosque 115, 37150 Leon, Gto., Mexico
Abstract: In this paper, we present the results of the experimental and numerical study related to the characterization of holmium-doped silica fiber. For the experiments, we proposed to apply a standard acousto-optic modulator permitting rapid modulation of the pump power on the of the tested fiber input by the rectangular or sinusoidal signals for measuring the lifetimes of the laser (5I7) and the pump (5I8) energy levels of Ho3+ ions. We studied the effects of the fiber length and the concentration-dependent pair-induced quenching on the accuracy of measuring the fluorescence lifetime. The results of this study were compared with those obtained using the Förster decay function used for such types of measurements. We showed that knowledge of two fiber parameters, the pump saturation power and the fluorescence saturation power, together with the fiber absorption spectrum, permits one to obtain the absorption cross-sections at the pump and other wavelengths, the active ion concentration, and the quantum efficiency of the fluorescence from the laser level. The results of the presented work are applicable for the amplifying fibers heavily doped with another kind of active ions and are useful for the numerical simulation and optimization of fiber lasers.

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