SWIR and MWIR Fiber-Based Coherent Sources
A special issue of Fibers (ISSN 2079-6439).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2018) | Viewed by 10225
Special Issue Editor
2. Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB), Gutleuthausstr. 1, 76275 Ettlingen, Germany
Interests: near- and mid-infrared fiber lasers; fiber materials and components; solid-state lasers and laser materials; mid-infrared non-linear wavelength conversion and non-linear materials; optronics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fiber lasers and fiber-based coherent sources are well known for their unique properties, important in many current and future applications: They combine efficiency and high output power, owing to their advantageous thermal management with high beam quality and high integrability and compactness as a result of the wave guiding employed.
This Special Issue focuses on SWIR and MWIR fiber lasers and fiber-based coherent sources, i.e., sources emitting in the wavelength range from 1.5 µm to beyond 5 µm, a topic with perduring interest that strongly increased in recent years and which addresses a wavelength range that becomes more and more important in the near- and mid-term future. Applications range from environmental monitoring and sensing in the unique fingerprint region of molecular absorption, over medical surgery and plastic processing employing several absorption features of water and plastic materials up to specific applications in defense and security.
The topics presented and discussed reflect the current state of the art and recent developments in novel doped fibers for direct emission, directly emitting fiber lasers, fiber lasers for pumping applications in non-linear frequency conversion and indirect fiber-based sources using non-linear fibers based on mid-IR materials.
Prof. Dr. Marc Eichhorn
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- SWIR fiber laser
- MWIR fiber laser
- Erbium
- Thulium
- Holmium
- Silica fibers
- Fluoride fibers
- Telluride fibers
- Chalcogenide fibers
- Fiber non-linear mid-IR frequency conversion
- Supercontinuum generation
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