4. Applications
In this section, we present the main industrial and scientific fields in which fiber lasers are used, as well as a few more marginal applications that are nonetheless representative of the advantages offered by these sources. Of course, this brief presentation does not claim to be exhaustive, and the field of applications is evolving rapidly with technological developments.
4.1 Optical telecommunications
Rare-earth-doped fibers have historically been developed in the context of optical telecommunications. Indeed, the development of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers has enabled an explosion in the performance of these systems in terms of throughput-distance product, by doing away with regenerative repeaters based on fast electronics. In telecommunications systems,...
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Bibliography
Software tools
RP Fiber Power: Commercial software for simulating fiber-optic lasers and amplifiers http://www.rp-photonics.com/fiberpower.html
Fiberdesk: Commercial software for simulating propagation in optical fibers, including amplifiers and fiber oscillators.
Websites
Very useful link on photonics in general and laser sources in particular: Encyclopedia of laser physics and technology http://www.rp-photonics.com/encyclopedia.html (page consulted on June 21, 2011)
Standards and norms
- Spatial beam quality measurement: beam size and divergence " Lasers and laser-related equipment – Test methods for laser beam widths, divergence angles and beam propagation ratios " - ISO 11146 - 2005
- Définition de fibre monomode : « Cutoff wavelength measurement for single-mode fibre » - CEI/IEC International standard 793-1-C7A - 2011
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Rare earth-doped optical fibers
Corning http://www.corning.com
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