Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers (3^rd Ed.) Optical Science and Engineering Series

This book provides an examination of the theories, operating characteristics, and current technology of main fiber laser and amplifier devices based on rare-earth-doped silica and fluorozirconate fibers. It describes the principles, designs, and properties of the erbium-doped fiber amplifier and its role as the cornerstone component in optical communication systems.

Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, Third Edition contains new and revised material reflecting major developments in academia and industry. The book discusses the theories, fabrication techniques, physical properties, operating characteristics, and current and advanced technologies associated with fiber laser and amplifier devices. The authors also present discussion on Q-switch fiber lasers, principles of mode-locked fiber lasers and applications, high power Yb-doped fiber lasers, visible fluoride fiber lasers, Tm-doped mode-locked fiber lasers at 2um, Ho-doped mode-locked fiber lasers, and 1.3um fiber amplifiers. Optical properties of rare-earth-doped glasses and rare-earth-doped infrared-transmitting glass fibers are described as well as CW silica fiber lasers and broadband fiber sources. Finally, erbium-doped fiber amplifiers including basic physics, characteristics, and recent advances are discussed.

This book is intended for laser and optical engineers, telecommunication engineers, network and system engineers, applied physicists, and electronic engineers.

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

Chapter15: Few-Mode Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers

Chapter 16: High-Performance Ultrashort-Pulse Fiber Lasers

Michel Digonnet is a professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. His research activities center mostly on advanced fiber-based sensors, in particular fiber optic gyroscopes, fiber hydrophones and microphones, and strain sensors.