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Towards high-power mid-infrared emission from a fibre laser
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In this article, a review summarizes the different rare-earth cations and host materials used in mid-infrared fiber laser technology, and discusses the future applications and challenges for the field.Abstract:
Fibre lasers in the mid-infrared regime are useful for a diverse range of fields, including chemical and biomedical sensing, military applications and materials processing. This Review summarizes the different rare-earth cations and host materials used in mid-infrared fibre laser technology, and discusses the future applications and challenges for the field.read more
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Mid-infrared chalcogenide glass Raman fiber laser.
Martin Bernier,Vincent Fortin,Nicolas Caron,Mohammed El-Amraoui,Younes Messaddeq,Réal Vallée +5 more
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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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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Raman fiber lasers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the technology of Raman fiber laser, specifically focused on the most recent developments, and discuss several applications of high-power fiber laser in laser pumping, frequency conversion, optical communications and biology.
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Watt-level fiber-based femtosecond laser source tunable from 2.8 to 3.6 μm
Simon Duval,Jean-Christophe Gauthier,Louis-Rafaël Robichaud,Pascal Paradis,Michel Olivier,Vincent Fortin,Martin Bernier,Michel Piché,Réal Vallée +8 more
TL;DR: A simple and efficient laser system based entirely on erbium-doped fluoride glass fibers that generates high-energy Raman soliton pulses tunable from 2.8 to 3.6 μm at a high average output power, which promises direct applications in laser processing of polymers and biological materials.
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TL;DR: It is shown here that solution-processed plasmonic semiconductor nanocrystals exhibit superbroadband (over 400 THz) SA, meanwhile with large modulation depth and ultrafast recovery with facile accessibility and superbroad band optical nonlinearity, which may stimulate a growing interest in the exploiting of relevant NLO and photonic applications.
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