5. Conclusion
The compactness and efficiency of fiber lasers, combined with remarkable performance in terms of power and beam quality, have led to a large number of applications, both scientific and industrial. In particular, the technology of ytterbium-doped fibers is now industrially mature, and the performance of transverse single-mode laser sources achieved in the laboratory with these fibers seems to be fairly close to fundamental physical limits, whether in continuous or pulsed mode. Future advances in source performance could come from new fiber technologies, and in particular from the search for large-modal-area structures that are less sensitive to the external environment. Transposing the excellent performance of ytterbium-doped fiber lasers to other wavelength ranges, either by using other dopants such as thulium or erbium, or by external wavelength conversion, also seems an important challenge...
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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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