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In this study, we present a novel fiber laser that employs self-pumping from internal laser transitions to induce inversion in other transitions. Using the 5F4 + 5S2→5I5 laser transition at 1354 nm to populate the 5I5 level, the cascade laser oscillation at 1662 nm (5I5→5I7) in Ho3+-doped ZrF4 (Ho3+: ZrF4) fiber was investigated. A practical design of the cascade laser, which is pumped by a 751 nm...Show More
For decades, researchers have been interested in developing efficient rare-earth-doped laser sources using dual-wavelength pumping. However, dual-wavelength pumping of rare-earth-doped lasers and amplifiers are currently restricted to pump wavelengths longer than the visible. Extending the use of dual-wavelength pumping for directly diode-pumped rare-earth-doped lasers is of great importance for b...Show More
In the well-known excited-state absorption (ESA) process, population inversion of the laser transition can be achieved by a strong pump ESA involving a lower laser level. The exploitation of pump ESA has expanded from the visible to the near-infrared spectral range, based on various laser sources. Extending the operating wavelength of the pump ESA is greatly significant for the development of rare...Show More
Fiber lasers have been increasingly playing a significant role in marking, cutting, welding, and other material processing industrial applications. Further power scaling of fiber lasers needs to overcome transverse mode instability and a range of nonlinear effects. Further improvements in effective mode area scaling and higher-order-mode suppression are essential. All-solid photonic bandgap fiber ...Show More
Tunable coherent light source emitting at the visible region has long been recognized as a key asset, especially with a monolithic design involved, for the increasing number of emerging applications in the scientific research and industrial manufacturing. Here, an efficient 640 nm solid-state laser is used as a pump source, and the fiber end-facet mirrors construct a fiber laser resonator. We expe...Show More
We successfully demonstrate a blue diode-pumped green single-wavelength self-Q-switched Ho3+:ZrF4-BaF2-LaF3-AlF3-NaF (Ho:ZBLAN) all-fiber laser emitting at ~550 nm. Such a green laser, being a very simple device, consists of a 15-cm-long Ho:ZBLAN fiber and a pair of fiber input/output mirrors. The Ho:ZBLAN fiber not only acts as a gain medium but also works as a saturable absorber (SA). The modula...Show More
We report record single-mode power of ~150W and record single-pass-pump efficient of ~63% versus the launched pump power from a monolithic Yb three-level fiber laser at ~978nm based on an all-solid photonic bandgap fiber. © 2019 The Author(s)Show More
We report bidirectional red-light passively Q-switched all-fiber lasers based on a ring-cavity configuration using single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) as saturable absorber (SA). By manipulating the cavity design and intra-cavity polarization state, two sets of output pulses with different features could be achieved from the clockwise (C.W.) and counterclockwise (C.C.W.) directions, respectively....Show More