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Mid-infrared fiber lasers at and beyond 3.5 μm using dual-wavelength pumping.
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The first erbium-doped zirconium-fluoride-based glass fiber laser operating well beyond 3 μm with significant power and efficiency is reported, and it exhibited the longest wavelength of operation obtained to date for a room temperature, nonsupercontinuum fiber laser.Abstract:
We report the first, to the best of our knowledge, erbium-doped zirconium-fluoride-based glass fiber laser operating well beyond 3 μm with significant power. This fiber laser achieved 260 mW in CW at room temperature. The use of two different wavelength pump sources allows us to take advantage of the long-lived excited states that would normally cause a bottleneck, and this enables maximum incident optical-to-optical efficiency of 16% with respect to the total incident pump power. Both output power and efficiency are an order of magnitude improvement over similar lasers demonstrated previously. The fiber laser operating at 3.604 μm also exhibited the longest wavelength of operation obtained to date for a room temperature, nonsupercontinuum fiber laser.read more
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Black phosphorus: a two-dimension saturable absorption material for mid-infrared Q-switched and mode-locked fiber lasers
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3-μm Mid-infrared pulse generation using topological insulator as the saturable absorber.
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Black phosphorus Q-switched and mode-locked mid-infrared Er:ZBLAN fiber laser at 3.5 μm wavelength
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Versatile and widely tunable mid-infrared erbium doped ZBLAN fiber laser.
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Global Budget of Ethane and Regional Constraints on U.S. Sources
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TL;DR: In this article, a 3D chemical transport model (the GEOS-Chem CTM) is used to evaluate a global emission inventory for ethane (C2H6), with a best estimate for the global source of 13 Tg yr−1.
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Mid-infrared chalcogenide glass Raman fiber laser.
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TL;DR: The first demonstration of a Raman fiber laser emitting in the mid-infrared, above 3 μm is reported, using a low-loss Fabry-Pérot cavity formed by a pair of fiber Bragg gratings.
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Room temperature CW fibre laser at 3.5 mu m in Er/sup 3+/-doped ZBLAN glass
TL;DR: The first fiber laser operating above 3 mu m at room temperature was reported in this paper, where the first Er/sup 3+/-doped ZBLAN fiber pumped at 655 nm showed CW laser operation around 3.5 mu m.