Optical Fiber Lasers

Recent Advances and Applications
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-04109-8
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 544 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1002 g

Reihe: Springer Series in Optical Sciences

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest achievements in the field of optical fiber lasers, covering the basics, technology, and numerous applications. Optical fiber lasers are key in a variety of scientific, military, medical, industrial, and commercial spheres, and therefore have undergone rapid innovation. Each chapter highlights a novel development in refining fiber laser features such as the output lasing wavelength, output power, nature of the laser beam, nature of the output laser pulse, design of lasing cavity, and design of fiber structure. These improvements are then applied to a wide variety of lasers, including Raman fiber lasers, gas-filled fiber lasers, rare-earth doped fiber lasers, and more. This book also sheds light on the rise in AI-enabled fiber laser systems in industrial manufacturing. The in-depth coverage of the latest developments in various kinds of optical fiber laser technology ensure this volume will serve as a valuable resource for graduate students, engineers, and scientists both experienced and new to the field.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ferreira, Mário F. S.

Paul, Mukul Chandra

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Lichtwellenleiter
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Elektromagnetismus Optik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Materialwissenschaft: Elektronik, Optik
• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Elektronik Elektronische Baugruppen, Elektronische Materialien
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Elektromagnetismus Quantenoptik, Nichtlineare Optik, Laserphysik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematische Analysis Differentialrechnungen und -gleichungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: Optical Fiber Lasers.- Chapter 2: Q-Switched Erbium-Doped Fiber Lasers.- Chapter 3: Dissipative Solitons in Passively Mode-Locked Lasers.- Chapter 4: Ultra-Short High Amplitude Dissipative Solitons in Fiber Lasers.- Chapter 5: Multiplexed Dissipative Soliton Fiber Lasers.- Chapter 6: All-polarization maintaining thulium-doped passively mode-locked fiber lasers.- Chapter 7: Ultrafast Raman Fiber Lasers.- Chapter 8: Gas-Filled Hollow Core Fiber Lasers.- Chapter 9: Distributed feedback fiber laser based on regular and random RI structures..- Chapter 10: Random Fiber Lasers (RFLs): conception, demonstration and exploration.- Chapter 11: Self-Sweeping Fiber Laser.- Chapter 12: Wavelength-tunable mode-locked polarization-maintaining fiber laser.- Chapter 13: Nonlinear frequency conversion of fiber laser.- Chapter 14: Development of pulse fiber laser based on 2D materials.- Chapter 15: Large Mode Area Fibers for High Power Lasers.- Chapter 16: High power narrow linewidth linearly polarized fiber laser.- Chapter 17: Multielements doped silica glass-based specialty optical fibers for high power optical laser and optical amplifiers.- Chapter 18: The journey, current status, and challenges of high-power fiber laser spectral beam combining technology.- Chapter 19: High-power fiber laser in the AI era.- Chapter 20: Advancement in plasmonic fiber random lasers.

Über Autor(innen)

Mário F. S. Ferreira is a Professor at the Physics Department of Aveiro University, Portugal. His research interests have been concerned with the modelling and characterization of multi-section semiconductor lasers for coherent systems, quantum well lasers, optical fiber amplifiers and lasers, optical sensors, soliton propagation, polarization and nonlinear effects in optical fibers. He has been the leader of the Optics and Optoelectronics Group of the I3N – Institute of Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication. He has written about 400 scientific journal and conference publications, and several books, namely: “Optics and Photonics” (Lidel, 2003, in Portuguese), “Topics of Mathematical Physics” (Editora Ciência Moderna, 2018, Brazil, in Portuguese), “Optical Fibers: Technology, Communications and recent Advances” (NOVA Science Publishers, 2017), “Advances in Optoelectronic Technology and Industry Development” (CRC Press, 2019), “Nonlinear Effects in Optical Fibers” (Wiley, 2011),  “Optical Signal Processing in Highly Nonlinear Fibers” (CRC Press, 2020), “Optical Fiber Technology and Applications – Recent Advances” (IOP Publishing, 2021), “Solitons in Optical Fiber Systems” (Wiley, 2022), “Dissipative Optical Solitons” (Springer, 2022), “Photonic Crystal Fibers - Recent Advances” (NOVA Science Publishers, 2023), “Specialty Optical Fibers - Materials, Fabrication Technology and Applications” (Elsevier, 2024), “Optical Fiber Lasers” (Springer, 2026), and “Lasers Optics and Photonics” (Oxford University Press, 2026). He was also the Guest Editor of several Special Issues.

He is a Fellow and a Travelling Lecturer of both OPTICA (Optical Society of America) and SPIE - The International Society for Optics and Photonics, and a Member of IEEE. He served in various committees of OSA/OPTICA and of SPIE, as well as in the organizing and scientific committees of various international conferences. Actually, he serves also as an Associate Editor or as an Advisor Board Member of several international journals in the area of optics and photonics. 

Dr. Mukul Chandra Paul received his Ph.D. from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, in 2003. He served as Chief Scientist, Divisional Chair of the Fiber Optics and Photonics Division, and HOD of the Instrumentation and Information Technology Division at CSIR–Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata. He has authored over 250 peer-reviewed papers and 15 book chapters, holds eight U.S. patents on rare-earth-doped specialty optical fibers, and has edited three books on fiber lasers and specialty fibers. His research has advanced the field through collaborations with institutions in Malaysia, China, Taiwan, the UK, France, Russia, Vietnam, and Portugal. His honors include the BOYSCAST Fellowship (2006), MOSTI Award (2010), IEEE Photonics Distinguished Lecture Award (2011), CSIR Technology Awards (2012, 2015), DST-UKIERI Award (2013), Indo-Russian (RFBR) Grant (2016), Indo-Portugal (FCT) Grant (2017), Senior Visiting Scientist Award, NTUT (2020), CK Somany Award (2020), Adjunct Professorship, Airlangga University (2021), Platinum Jubilee Distinguished Scientist (2025), and Senior IEEE Membership (2025). He is a Senior Member of IEEE and OSA, a Life Member of MRSI and the Indian Ceramic Society, and serves on Technical Committees CHD C and LITD 11 under the Bureau of Indian Standards. Dr. Paul has supervised 6 Ph.D. scholars and 10 M.Sc. projects and served as PI for 17 sponsored projects totaling ?416 lakhs. Overall, as PI/Co-PI/member, he has completed 34 projects with ?46.0 crores in funding.

He has delivered 50+ invited talks and served as Guest Editor/Editor for special issue of leading journals, including IEEE JSTQE (2014), Current Nano Science (2015), Optical Materials Express (2019), and IEEE Photonics Journal (2019). He edited Fiber Laser (InTech, 2016), Fiber Laser: Advances in Research and Applications (Nova, 2017), and most recently Specialty Optical Fibers (Elsevier, 2024). Post-retirement, his research interest will be developing next-generation specialty optical fibers using advanced optical materials for photonic devices in collaboration with industry and academia.