Recent progress on mid-infrared pulsed fiber lasers and the applications

X Li, X Huang, X Hu, X Guo, Y Han - Optics & Laser Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
In the past two decades, great progress has been made in the development of inexpensive,
compact and efficient mid-infrared pulsed fiber laser Q-switched, mode-locked, and gain …

[HTML][HTML] Review of mid-infrared mode-locked laser sources in the 2.0 μm–3.5 μm spectral region

J Ma, Z Qin, G Xie, L Qian, D Tang - Applied Physics Reviews, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Ultrafast laser sources operating in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) region, which contains the
characteristic fingerprint spectra of many important molecules and transparent windows of …

Black phosphorus: a two-dimension saturable absorption material for mid-infrared Q-switched and mode-locked fiber lasers

J Li, H Luo, B Zhai, R Lu, Z Guo, H Zhang, Y Liu - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Black phosphorus (BP) as a novel class of two-dimension (2D) materials has recently
attracted enormous attention as a result of its unique physical and chemical features. The …

Femtosecond fiber lasers reach the mid-infrared

S Duval, M Bernier, V Fortin, J Genest, M Piché… - Optica, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Ultrafast fiber lasers operating in the near-infrared have revolutionized laser science by
enabling numerous breakthroughs in both fundamental science and industrial applications …

Fiber-based sources of coherent MIR radiation: key advances and future prospects

SD Jackson, RK Jain - Optics express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The mid-infrared (MIR) represents a large portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is
progressively being exploited for an enormous number of applications. Thermal imaging …

A robust and tuneable mid-infrared optical switch enabled by bulk Dirac fermions

C Zhu, F Wang, Y Meng, X Yuan, F Xiu, H Luo… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Pulsed lasers operating in the mid-infrared (3–20 μm) are important for a wide range of
applications in sensing, spectroscopy, imaging and communications. Despite recent …

Mid-infrared mode-locked pulse generation with multilayer black phosphorus as saturable absorber

Z Qin, G Xie, C Zhao, S Wen, P Yuan, L Qian - Optics Letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
A mid-infrared saturable absorber mirror is successfully fabricated by transferring the
mechanically exfoliated black phosphorus onto the gold-coated mirror. With the as-prepared …

Recent developments in lanthanide-doped mid-infrared fluoride fiber lasers

F Jobin, P Paradis, YO Aydin, T Boilard, V Fortin… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Mid-infrared fiber sources, emitting between 2.5 µm and 5.0 µm, are interesting for their
great potential in several application fields such as material processing, biomedicine …

3-μm mid-infrared pulse generation using topological insulator as the saturable absorber

J Li, H Luo, L Wang, C Zhao, H Zhang, H Li, Y Liu - Optics letters, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We report an 1150-nm diode-pump passively Q-switched Ho^ 3+-doped ZBLAN fiber laser
using topological insulator (TI): Bi_2Te_3 as the saturable absorber (SA). The TI: Bi_2Te_3 …

High-power mid-infrared femtosecond fiber laser in the water vapor transmission window

S Antipov, DD Hudson, A Fuerbach, SD Jackson - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
The recent demonstrations of ultrafast mid-infrared fiber lasers emitting sub-picosecond
pulses at 2.8 μm have created an exciting potential for a range of applications including mid …