Fibre Lasers: From Underlying Science and Technology to Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2015) | Viewed by 52737
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nonlinear science; optical communications; fiber lasers; nonlinear photonics
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Dear Colleagues,
The invention of the laser has started a new era in photonics and its applications. Usually, a laser is an integrated product at the interface of several research fields and technologies. A great variety of lasers have been demonstrated, which cater to a range of applications in very diverse fields of science and industry. There has been constant progress in laser technology thanks to advances in: (i) material science, (ii) optical engineering, and (iii) in better understanding of the fundamental science underlying the operation and performance of lasers.
Focus of this Special Issue is on a particular class of lasers – fibre lasers. Fibre lasers have many attractive features, such as compactness, stability, reliable beam quality, high electrical-to-optical efficiency, low running costs, and relative simplicity of operation and maintenance. Much of the success of fibre-based manufacturing and research has been enhanced by technologies developed in the telecommunications industry, however, recently emerged applications include many new areas, such as medicine, metrology, spectroscopy, and industrial cutting and welding; the list of new applications continues to grow rapidly.
Apart from their practical importance in numerous applications, fibre lasers also present a class of very interesting physical systems. Light propagating down the optical fibre is trapped (in the directions perpendicular to the propagation) in a very small core of the fibre-optic waveguide, making possible the accumulation of the nonlinear effects characteristic of densely localized light. The combination of nonlinear properties of an optical fibre with the light amplification, inevitably leading to generation of optical noise, and multimode features of the device, makes fibre laser an interesting, complex nonlinear physical system. Insight into nonlinear effects and instabilities in fibre laser leading to complex dynamics of radiation is an opportunity for unlocking lasers’ high-power, amplitude and phase stability, and new generated waveforms. This Special Issue is aimed at presenting recent progress in the field of fibre lasers, new technologies and applications, and fundamental science underlying their operation.
Prof. Sergei K. Turitsyn
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- new applications of fibre lasers
- nonlinear dynamics of radiation in fibre lasers
- new materials for fibre lasers
- polarisation properties of fibre lasers
- new designs of fibre lasers
- measurement techniques
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