Advanced Fiber Technology for High‐Energy Lasers

Advanced Fiber Characterization Technologies for Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers

Optical fiber gain profiling, spectrogram modal analysis, and interferometric refractive index and residual stress measurement are presented. Information obtained from these novel characterization technologies is critical for design and assembly of fiber-based lasers and amplifiers. OCIS codes: (060.2270) Fiber Characterization; (060.3510) Lasers, fiber

Advanced Optical Fibers for High Power Fiber Lasers

Development of high average power fiber lasers for advanced accelerators 


Fiber-lasers for ultrafast optics

The current status of a fiber-based ultrafast technology is reviewed. Pulse generation techniques capable of producing femtosecond pulses are discussed. Here we describe passive and active–passive mode locking techniques as well as linear and nonlinear fiber amplifiers. Thirtyfemtosecond pulses may be generated directly from fiber oscillators or by implementing pulse compression techniques. The...

Multi-Wavelength Fiber Lasers

Nowadays, multiwavelength lasers are of great interest for telecommunications and sensors multiplexing. These lasers also have a great potential in the fiber-optic test and measurement of WDM components. The requirements for such optical sources are: a high number of channels over large wavelength span, moderate output powers (of the order of 100μW per channel) with good optical signal to noise...