ABSTRACT

Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, Second Edition discusses the essential principles, operating characteristics, and current technology of the main fiber laser and amplifier devices based on rare-earth-doped silica and fluorozirconate fibers. Covering all aspects of this revolutionary technology, the book reviews fiber fabrication methods and the basic spectroscopic properties of rare-earth ions in glasses, concentrates on the most important fiber laser sources, examines several advances in fiber amplifiers, and analyzes new findings and improvements in single-frequency operation, frequency tenability, broadband fiber sources, and blue-green and far-infrared fiber lasers.

chapter 3|64 pages

Continuous-Wave Silica Fiber Lasers

chapter 4|88 pages

Visible Fluoride Fiber Lasers*

chapter 5|83 pages

Narrow-Linewidth Fiber Lasers

chapter 6|32 pages

Broadband Fiber Sources

chapter 7|70 pages

Q-Switched Fiber Lasers

chapter 8|62 pages

Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers

chapter 12|98 pages

1.3-µm Fiber Amplifiers