Optical Fibre Lasers and Amplifiers

Part 1 Perspective and overview: brief history of fibre lasers; early work on glass lasers; ligand field and ion interaction; fibre applications. Part 2 Introduction to glass fibre lasers and amplifiers: comparison of bulk and fibre lasers; energy levels of the rare-earth ions; population dynamics in optically pumped rare-earth ion-doped media; modelling of fibre laser oscillators and amplifiers. Part 3 Glass structure and fabrication techniques: doped glass structures and properties; fabrication methods; results. Part 4 Spectroscopy of rare-earth doped fibres: absorption and emission cross-sections; excited-state absorption; fluorescence measurements. Part 5 Components for fibre amplifiers and lasers: pump sources; pump/signal multiplexing components; laser cavity elements; packaged fibre amplifiers. Part 6 Silica fibre amplifiers and systems: applications and optical amplifiers; rare-earth doped fibre amplifiers; non-linear fibre amplifiers; semiconductor laser amplifiers; comparison between fibre and semiconductor laser optical amplifiers. Part 7 Silica fibre laser oscillators: tuneable operation; single longitudinal mode operation; high power operation; 1.5 nm er fibre lasers; 1.3 nm nd fibre laser; superfluorescent operation; visible operation; laser transitions with low quantum efficiency. Part 8 Fluoride fibre lasers and amplifiers: fluoride glasses as laser host materials; spectroscopy of rare-earths in fluoride glasses; fabrication techniques; fluoride fibre lasers; upconversion lasers; fluoride fibre amplifiers; other systems. Part 9 Q-switched and mode-locked fibre lasers: mode-locking of fibre lasers; Q-switching of optical fibre lasers. Part 10 Future directions: fibre amplifiers, the impact on optical communications; fibre lasers; fibre amplifiers and lasers at different wavelength regions; active optical fibre sensors.

Reviews the development of optical fibre lasers and amplifiers over the past few years. - British Book News; The book is well illustrated and the reference lists are comprehensive. - Aslib Book List