Optical Fiber Lasers: Advances in Design, Fabrication and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Fiber lasers have rapidly developed in recent decades, offering benefits such as high power, high energy, narrow pulse width, narrow linewidth, and wide wavelength, among others. They have contributed to significant progress in the fields of communication, precision measurement, sensing, laser surgery, laser biophotonics, and additive and subtractive manufacturing, to name a few, due to their excellent conversion efficiency, size, heat dissipation, and other characteristics. Optical fiber lasers have become a powerful tool to support the development and progression of multiple industries. However, there is still considerable room for improvement in the design, fabrication, and application of fiber lasers. Discussion and research in this regard will further enhance the performance of lasers and expand their range of application fields.

This Special Issue welcomes submissions on optical fiber lasers, including advances in design, fabrication, and applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Ultrafast lasers;
• Mode-locked/Q-switched fiber lasers;
• Fiber laser design;
• High-power lasers;
• Mid-infrared fiber laser;
• Narrow-linewidth fiber lasers;
• Tunable fiber lasers;
• Rare-earth doping;
• Photonic crystal fibers;
• Laser cutting/welding;
• Medical laser systems;
• Laser processing.

Dr. Huaiwei Zhang
Dr. Zhiqiang Wang
Dr. Xinyang Su
Guest Editors

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