MID-INFRARED FIBER PHOTONICS

Mid-Infrared Fibre Photonics: Glass Materials, Fibre Fabrication and Processing, Laser Sources and Devicess combines the latest glass chemistry, fibre fabrication and post processing techniques to provide a comprehensive reference on the fundamental science and latest research in fibre photonics for the mid-infrared range.

The book systematically reviews the key glass materials systems including fluorides, chalcogenides, and oxides. Each materials chapter includes discussion of composition, structure, thermal, optical and mechanical properties, extrinsic and intrinsic loss mechanisms, materials preparation and purification techniques.

Then Mid-Infrared Fibre Photonics: Glass Materials, Fibre Fabrication and Processing, Laser Sources and Devicess covers the most relevant fabrication, post-processing, and spectroscopy techniques. Fibre sources are also addressed including fibre sources for continuous wave emission, pulsed emission, and broadband emission. The book concludes with a brief overview of important medical, sensing and defence applications.

Section 1: Optical glasses and fibers for high nonlinearity, rare earth doping and high transparency in the mid-infrared

1. Chalcogenide materials for mid-wave infrared fibers

2. Fluoride glass and optical fiber fabrication

3. Oxide glass and optical fiber fabrication

Section 2: Post-processing of mid-infrared transparent optical fiber

4. Optical fibre fabrication for fluoride, chalcogenide and oxide glasses

5. Post-processing soft glass optical fibers

Section 3: Spectroscopy of the rare earth ions for mid-infrared emission

6. Energy transfer processes in rare-earth-doped glass fiber

7. Spectroscopy of the rare-earth-ion transitions in fluoride glasses

8. Breaking through the wavelength barrier: The state-of-play on rare-earth ion, mid-infrared fiber lasers for the 4-10 mm wavelength region

Section 4: Fiber sources for continuous wave emission

9. High-power continuous wave mid-infrared fluoride glass fiber lasers

Section 5: Fiber sources involving pulsed emission

10. Q-switched and gain-switched mid-infrared fluoride glass fiber lasers

11.  Mode-locked mid-infrared fiber systems

12.  Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation

13. Modeling mid-infrared fiber laser systems

Stuart Jackson received the BSc and the BSc(Hons) degrees in 1989 and 1990 respectively from the University of Newcastle (Australia). In 1990, he joined the Centre for Lasers and Applications at Macquarie University to undertake research toward the PhD degree, which he received in 1996. In 1995, he joined the Laser Photonics Group at the University of Manchester and initiated the research there into high power fibre laser development. In 1999 he joined the Optical Fibre Technology Centre at the University of Sydney where he became a Senior Research Fellow and Technical Manager of silicate fibre fabrication. In 2009 he joined the School of Physics at the University of Sydney as a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow funded by the Australia Research Council. In 2014 he joined Macquarie University's School of Engineering. His interests include diode-pumped solid-state lasers, spectroscopy, nonlinear optics and integrated optics.
Dr. Réal Vallée is a full Professor in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Optics at Université Laval, Québec, Canada. His interests include mid-Infrared sources and components, laser-matter interaction and photo-inscribed integrated photonic devices.
Dr. Martin Bernier is a professor in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Optics at Université Laval, Québec, Canada. His interests include Bragg gratings inscribed by femtosecond lasers in various transparent materials as well as the development of Bragg grating-based fiber lasers and sensors.