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Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, Third Edition, provides an in-depth description of the basic principles, operating characteristics, theoretical models, and current technology of the main fiber lasers and amplifiers based on rare-earth-doped silica, fluorozirconate, and other non-oxide fibers. Written by some of the most prominent experts in the field, it contains new and revised material reflecting major developments in academia and industry. It starts with a review of the main fiber fabrication techniques and fundamental optical and electronic properties of rare-earth-doped glasses. It goes on to present in individual chapters theoretical models, designs, and optical properties of a wide range of rare-earth-doped fiber light sources, including continuous-wave lasers, Q-switched lasers, and mode-locked lasers, ultrafast amplifiers, and high-power lasers and amplifiers. Separate chapters are devoted to devices utilizing rare-earth-doped infrared-transmitting glass fibers, visible fluoride fiber lasers, to thulium-doped mode-locked fiber lasers around 2 µm, and broadband fiber sources. Finally, this book reviews in detail the principles and properties of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers, a cornerstone component in existing optical communication systems.
This book is intended for laser and optical engineers, telecommunication engineers, network and system engineers, applied physicists, and electronic engineers.
Sommario
Chapter 1: Rare-Earth-Doped Silica Fiber Fabrication
Chapter 2: Optical and Electronic Properties of Rare-Earth Ions in Glasses
Chapter 3: Basics of Continuous-Wave Silica Fiber Lasers
Chapter 4: Visible Fluoride Fiber Lasers
Chapter 5: Single-Frequency Fiber Lasers
Chapter 7: Q-switched Fiber Lasers
Chapter 8: Specialty Large-Core Fibers For Power Scaling
Chapter 9: High-Power Single-Mode Ytterbium-Doped Fiber Lasers
Chapter 10: Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers
Chapter 11: Thulium-Doped Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers at 2 µm
Chapter 12: Rare-Earth-Doped Infrared-Transmitting Glass Fibers
Chapter 13: Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers: Basic Physics and Characteristics
Chapter 14: Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers: Recent Advances
Chapter 15: Few-Mode Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers
Chapter 16: High-Performance Ultrashort-Pulse Fiber Lasers
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Michel J. F. Digonnet is a professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. His current research activities center mostly on advanced fiber and microelectromechanical sensors, in particular fiber optic gyroscopes, fiber hydrophones and microphones, strain sensors, and exceptional points in sensors, as well as optical cooling of fiber lasers and amplifiers.
Riassunto
This book covers main fiber lasers and amplifier devices based on rare-earth-doped silicia and flourozirconate fibers. It describes the erbium-doped fiber amplifier and its role as foundational in optical communication systems.
