Pulsed fluoride fiber lasers at 3 μm [Invited]

Xiushan Zhu; Gongwen Zhu; Chen Wei; Leonid Vasilyevich Kotov; Junfeng Wang; Minghong Tong; Robert A. Norwood; N. Peyghambarian

doi:10.1364/JOSAB.34.000A15

Pulsed fluoride fiber lasers at 3 μm [Invited]

Xiushan Zhu, Gongwen Zhu, Chen Wei, Leonid Vasilyevich Kotov, Junfeng Wang, Minghong Tong, Robert A. Norwood, N. Peyghambarian

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Enormous performance gains have been made in fluoride-based fiber lasers operating around 3 μm due to advances in fiber fabrication and improvements in high-power pump diode technologies during the last decade. Pulsed fluoride fiber lasers capable of producing high-energy/high-peak power mid-infrared pulses are of significant interest for a variety of applications. Q-switched and mode-locked fiber lasers have been demonstrated with various techniques in recent years. In this paper, pulsed Er3-and Ho3-doped ZBLAN (ZrF4-BaF2-LaF3-AlF3-NaF) fiber lasers are reviewed, and our achievement of pulsed fiber laser sources at 3 μm is presented. Power/energy scaling of pulsed ZBLAN fiber lasers and their potential applications are discussed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	A15-A28
Journal	Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
Volume	34
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.34.000A15
State	Published - Mar 1 2017

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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