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Fiber lasers and their applications [Invited]
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Recent advances of high-power continuous wave, Q-switched, mode-locked, and single-frequency fiber lasers in the 1, 1.5, 2, and 3 μm regions and their applications in such areas as industry, medicine, research, defense, and security are addressed in detail.Abstract:
Fiber lasers have seen progressive developments in terms of spectral coverage and linewidth, output power, pulse energy, and ultrashort pulse width since the first demonstration of a glass fiber laser in 1964. Their applications have extended into a variety of fields accordingly. In this paper, the milestones of glass fiber laser development are briefly reviewed and recent advances of high-power continuous wave, Q-switched, mode-locked, and single-frequency fiber lasers in the 1, 1.5, 2, and 3 μm regions and their applications in such areas as industry, medicine, research, defense, and security are addressed in detail.read more
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Supercontinuum generation, photonic crystal fiber
TL;DR: In this article, a review of numerical and experimental studies of supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber is presented over the full range of experimentally reported parameters, from the femtosecond to the continuous-wave regime.
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Ultrafast fiber lasers mode-locked by two-dimensional materials: review and prospect
Tian Jiang,Ke Yin,Cong Wang,Jie You,Hao Ouyang,Runlin Miao,Chenxi Zhang,Ke Wei,Han Li,Haitao Chen,Renyan Zhang,Xin Zheng,Zhongjie Xu,Xiangai Cheng,Han Zhang +14 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors mainly review the linear and nonlinear photonic properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials, as well as their nonlinear applications in efficient passive mode-locking devices and ultrafast fiber lasers.
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Review of recent progress on single-frequency fiber lasers [Invited]
Shijie Fu,Wei Shi,Yan Feng,Lei Zhang,Zhongmin Yang,Shanhui Xu,Xiushan Zhu,Robert A. Norwood,N. Peyghambarian +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the recent advances of single-frequency fiber oscillators and amplifiers are briefly reviewed in the broad wavelength region of 1-3 μm. And the solution to achieving higher power/energy is also discussed, accompanied by the start-of-the-art results achieved to date.
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Exploration in Performance Scaling and New Application Avenues of Superfluorescent Fiber Source
Jiangming Xu,Pu Zhou,Liu Wei,Jinyong Leng,Hu Xiao,Pengfei Ma,Jian Wu,Hanwei Zhang,Jinbao Chen,Zejin Liu +9 more
TL;DR: The new horizon opened by the recently developed SFS is reviewed, and a kilowatt-level high power SFS based on a tandem pumping technique will be demonstrated for the first time, and the first hundred-watt level linearly polarized random fiber laser is presented.
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Graphene Mode-Locked Fiber Laser at 2.8 $\mu \text{m}$
Gongwen Zhu,Xiushan Zhu,Fengqiu Wang,Shuo Xu,Yao Li,Xinli Guo,Kaushik Balakrishnan,Robert A. Norwood,N. Peyghambarian +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the mode-locked pulses at 2.8 µmW with an average output power of 18 mW at a repetition rate of 25.4 MHz, corresponding to a pulse energy of 0.7 nJ, were obtained.
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Supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of numerical and experimental studies of supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber is presented over the full range of experimentally reported parameters, from the femtosecond to the continuous-wave regime.
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High power fiber lasers: current status and future perspectives [Invited]
TL;DR: This paper reviews the current state of the art in terms of continuous-wave and pulsed performance of ytterbium-doped fiber lasers, the current fiber gain medium of choice, and by far the most developed in Terms of high-power performance.
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Mode-locking of lasers
TL;DR: The evolution of the theory of mode-locking over the last three and a half decades is reviewed and some of the salient experiments are discussed in the context of theory as discussed by the authors, with two-cycle pulses of a mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser.
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Laser beam combining for high-power, high-radiance sources
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of beam combining and highlight some of the tradeoffs among beam-combining techniques, including wavelength (spectral) and coherent (phased array) techniques.
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Ytterbium-doped large-core fiber laser with 1.36 kW continuous-wave output power
TL;DR: A highly-efficient cladding-pumped ytterbium-doped fiber laser generating 1.36 kW of continuous-wave output power at 1.1 mum with 83% slope efficiency and near diffraction-limited beam quality is demonstrated.