Abstract
Recent years, high power fiber lasers at the spectral region near 1550 nm attract a lot of attention as promising sources for numerous civil and military applications. There are four main type of lasers allowing to generate high power radiation at this spectral range: Er/Yb-co doped fiber lasers, Yb-free Er-doped fiber lasers cladding-pumped at 980 nm, Er-doped fiber lasers core-pumped by Raman lasers at 1480 nm, and Er-doped fiber laser in-band pumped at 1532 nm. In this chapter we review current states, limiting factors and future perspectives of all these approaches.
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The authors are grateful to E. M. Dianov, the scientific director of the Fiber Optics Research Center, for his continuous interest in and support of this work.
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Kotov, L.V., Likhachev, M.E. (2019). High Power Continuous-Wave Er-doped Fiber Lasers. In: Ribeiro, P., Andrews, D., Raposo, M. (eds) Optics, Photonics and Laser Technology 2017. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 222. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12692-6_8
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