Advances in Fiber Lasers: Design and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Fiber lasers have demonstrated significant application value in diverse fields, including scientific research, industry, and national defense, owing to their outstanding advantages such as high conversion efficiency, convenient thermal management, compact structure, and excellent beam quality. In recent years, with the expanding applications of fiber lasers across various domains, remarkable progress has been achieved in their structural design, performance optimization, and output power scaling. Furthermore, the integration of fiber lasers in other disciplines has stimulated numerous innovative and promising research directions.

This Special Issue, entitled “Advances in Fiber Lasers: Design and Applications”, invites contributions from researchers working on the scientific investigation and engineering application of fiber lasers. Submissions may include theoretical analyses, numerical simulations, experimental studies, and engineering applications. We particularly encourage interdisciplinary research that integrates fiber laser technologies with frontier areas such as artificial intelligence, intelligent sensing, and biomedicine. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Fiber laser and amplification systems
• High-efficiency beam combining strategies
• Ultrafast and mode-locked lasers
• Nonlinear optics
• Precision micromachining
• Novel fiber structures/photonic crystal fibers/large-mode-area fibers/hollow-core fibers/specialty-doped fibers
• Optical field shaping and applications
• Novel structured light
• Optical metrology technology

Dr. Hanbin Wang
Dr. Xinyang Su
Dr. Yanxiang Zhang
Guest Editors

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