Photonics, Volume 12, Issue 10
2025 October - 96 articles
Cover Story: The limited availability of powerful and reliable mid-infrared (MIR) sources has prevented their widespread adoption in spectroscopy, even if most greenhouse gases’ fundamental absorption lines are found in this region of the electromagnetic spectrum. However, in recent years, both MIR fiber lasers and ICLs have enjoyed substantial growth in available output powers. Since the two technologies have complementary benefits, combining them is an interesting avenue toward the development of a powerful and narrow linewidth MIR source. We report what is, to our knowledge, the first fiber amplification of a distributed feedback ICL operating in the MIR. This dysprosium-doped fluoride fiber amplifier yields 10 dB of gain at 3240 nm. We believe this is an important milestone toward power scaling of tunable single-frequency MIR laser sources. View this paper - Issues are regarded as officially published after their release is announced to the table of contents alert mailing list .
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