In this paper, we summarize the fundamental properties and review the latest developments
in high power fiber lasers. The review is focused primarily on the most common fiber laser …

The rise in output power from rare-earth-doped fiber sources over the past decade, via the
use of cladding-pumped fiber architectures, has been dramatic, leading to a range of fiber …

Optical fibres have for almost three decades been fabricated of solid glass. It was, therefore,
a radical change that took place, when researchers in the late 90's started to fabricate hair …

The fiber laser, with its humble beginning in the late 1980s, has undergone tremendous
development in the past decade or so, transforming itself from a research curiosity to a major …

An Ytterbium-doped photonic crystal fibre laser is demonstrated with a 100 µm2 core area
and single transverse mode with an output efficiency of 30%. Double-clad PCF laser …

This chapter outlines three methods for cutting mPOFs as well as giving details of
techniques that have been used to characterise mPOFs through accurate imaging of their …

Air-silica microstructured fibers are designed and fabricated to yield numerical aperture (NA)
greater than 0.9. A model is presented which accurately predicts the structural parameters …

We describe the design and performance of cladding-pumped silica fiber lasers with high
continuous-wave output powers and broad wavelength tunability in the 1, 1.5, and 2 μm …

We have fabricated an ytterbium doped all-glass double-clad large mode area holey fiber. A
highly efficient cladding pumped single transverse mode holey fiber laser has been …

In this paper, we summarize the fundamental properties and review the latest developments
in high power ytterbium-doped fiber (YDF) lasers. The review is focused primarily on the …