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Fiber Amplifiers of Radially or Azimuthally Polarized Light

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• Fiber Laser Applications (FILAS) 2011 paper: FThA4
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• Nixon, Micha; Fridman, Moti; Friesem, Asher A; Davidson, Nir
• A novel configuration for amplifying radial or azimuthal polarized light with fiber amplifier is presented. We obtained 40dB amplification with more than 85% polarization...

Distributed Feedback Lasers in Phosphate Glass Active Fiber

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• Fiber Laser Applications (FILAS) 2011 paper: FThA5
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• Schulzgen, Axel; Hofmann, Peter; Li, Li; Peyghambarian, Nasser; Xiong, Lingyun; Laronche, Albane; Albert, Jacques
• Writing grating structures directly into the highly-doped core of phosphate glass fibers enables the fabrication of distributed feedback lasers. Efficient pump absorption...

Recent Progress on the ALPINE (Advanced Lasers for Photovoltaic INdustrial processing Enhancement) FP7 Integrated Project

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• Fiber Laser Applications (FILAS) 2011 paper: FThB1
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• Hernandez, Yves; Bertrand, Anthony; Selleri, Stefano; Salin, Francois; Leick, Lasse; Hueske, Marc; Petkovsek, Rok; Ferrario, Fabio; Lichtenstein, Norbert
• We present the recent advances on the ALPINE project dedicated to developing innovative fibre lasers for scribing thin film CIGS and CdTe solar cells. The project started in September...

High average power femtosecond pulses at 520 nm via second harmonic generation of a fiber chirped pulse amplification system

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• Fiber Laser Applications (FILAS) 2011 paper: FThB2
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• Eidam, Tino; Hädrich, Steffen; Rothhardt, Jan; Stutzki, Fabian; Jansen, Florian; Gottschall, Thomas; Andersen, Thomas V; Limpert, Jens; Tünnermann, Andreas
• We present efficient second harmonic generation of a femtosecond fiber chirped pulse amplification system. At a record average power of 135W and a repetition rate of 5.25MHz we...

High Efficiency Chirped Bragg Gratings for Pulse Stretching and Compression

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• Fiber Laser Applications (FILAS) 2011 paper: FThB3
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• Smirnov, Vadim; Rotari, Eugeniu; Cohanoshi, Ion; Galvanauskas, Almantas; Glebov, Leonid
• This paper report on the advances in the large-aperture linearly chirped Bragg grating stretcher/compressor, which enables efficient compact and robust chirped pulse amplification...

ns and fs Fiber Lasers

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• Fiber Laser Applications (FILAS) 2011 paper: FThB4
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• Liu, Jian; Wan, Peng; Yang, Lihmei; Amzajerdian, Farzin
• Pulse shaping technology is present to mitigate pulse narrowing and SBS effects in high energy/power ns fiber lasers and to balance SPM and gain narrowing in high energy/power fs fiber...

Photovoltaics Applications of High Power Green and UV Fiber Lasers

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• Fiber Laser Applications (FILAS) 2011 paper: FThB5
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• Saby, Julien; Cocquelin, Benjamin; Salin, Francois; Falletto, Nicolas
• We present industrial laser products delivering 200W at 1030nm, 60W at 515nm and 20W at 343nm with pulse duration down to 10ns and M2<1.3 with a very simple MOPA architecture based...

High Repetition Rate Ultrashort Pulse Micromachining with Fiber Lasers

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• Fiber Laser Applications (FILAS) 2011 paper: FThC1
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• Nolte, Stefan; Döring, Sven; Ancona, Antonio; Limpert, Jens; Tünnermann, Andreas
• Despite its advantages with respect to precision, ultrashort pulse micromachining often suffers from a low processing speed. We will discuss the opportunities for high repetition rate...

High Power all fiber Picosecond Laser and Application to Photovoltaic Thin Films Scribing

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• Fiber Laser Applications (FILAS) 2011 paper: FThC2
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• Pierrot, Simonette; Cocquelin, Benjamin; Saby, Julien; Falletto, Nicolas; Salin, Francois
• We demonstrate an all-fiber source producing 30ps pulses with energy up to 30µJ and average power up to 45W. 50% conversion efficiency to the UV and application to CIGS thin film...

Ultra-short pulse fibre laser parameters optimisation for CdTe thin film solar cells processing and fibre laser design

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• Fiber Laser Applications (FILAS) 2011 paper: FThC3
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• Hernandez, Yves
• We present the results of an optimization study of ultra-short pulse laser scribing of thin film CdTe solar cells. Thereafter, a fibre laser source has been designed and the first...

Influence of Peak Power and ns Pulse Duration on Micromachining

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• Fiber Laser Applications (FILAS) 2011 paper: FThC4
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• Hendow, Sami
• Experimental and modeling results are presented for 10 to 200 ns pulsed fiber laser at 1064nm, showing peak power and pulse duration affecting ablation depth and HAZ, and produce heavy...

Visible and Infrared Sources based on Three-Level Ytterbium-doped Fiber Lasers

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• Fiber Laser Applications (FILAS) 2011 paper: FThC5
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• Boullet, J; Bello-Doua, R; Dubrasquet, R; Traynor, Nicholas; Lecaplain, Caroline; Hideur, Ammar; Lhermite, Jerome; Machinet, Guillaume; Médina, C; Cormier, Eric
• We present recent work on a variety of Yb-doped fiber laser systems operating on the three-level transition at 976 nm, both CW and pulsed, and subsequent frequency doubling.

An Introduction to Supersonic Laser Applications

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• Fiber Laser Applications (FILAS) 2011 paper: FThE1
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• Lupoi, R; Sparkes, M; Bray, M; Cockburn, A; O'Neill, W
• The importance of metal coating technologies drives the continuous improvement of deposition techniques. This paper presents the foundations of a novel technology for the...

Nonlinear dispersion shifted germanate fiber for continuum generation around 2 μm

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• Fiber Laser Applications (FILAS) 2011 paper: FThE10
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• Kalashnikov, Vladimir; Sorokina, Irina; Dvoyrin, Vladislav
• We report feasibility of continuum generation from <1 cm of nonlinear dispersion-shifted GeO2-doped SiO2-fiber, opening way to development of a compact all-in-one Tm-fiber-laser...

Frequency conversion of Continuous-Wave fiber lasers with periodically-poled non-linear crystals: RIN and efficiencies

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• Fiber Laser Applications (FILAS) 2011 paper: FThE11
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• Jacquemet, Mathieu; Harnois, David; Mugnier, Alain; Pureur, David
• This paper deals with SHG of CW fiber lasers with periodically-poled crystals. We compare SHG efficiencies obtained with single-frequency and with narrow linewidth ...

Active Thermography for Reliability Assessment of High Power Fiber Laser FBG Reflectors

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• Fiber Laser Applications (FILAS) 2011 paper: FThE12
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• Bernard, Pierre; Bessard, Judicael; Brochu, Guillaume; Lemaire, Éric
• Surface temperature alone can be insufficient to predict reliability of FBG components used in fiber lasers. However, more sophisticated active thermography techniques can provide...

Energy scalability of 2 μm ultrashort pulsed Tm-laser based on germanate dispersion shifted fiber

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• Fiber Laser Applications (FILAS) 2011 paper: FThE13
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• Kalashnikov, Vladimir; Sorokina, Irina; Dvoyrin, Vladislav
• Theoretical investigation of an all-normal-dispersion mode-locked Tm-laser based on dispersion shifted GeO2-doped SiO2-fiber, demonstrates its energy scalability opening a road for...

Multiwavelength Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser Employing A Dual-Pass Unbalanced In-Line Sagnac Interferometric Comb Filter

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• Fiber Laser Applications (FILAS) 2011 paper: FThE14
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• Lin, Hermann
• A dual-pass unbalanced in-line Sagnac interferometric comb filter with both schemes of nonlinear polarization rotation and intensity dependent loss has been proposed for...

Low Repetition Rate High Energy 1.5 µm Fiber Laser

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• Fiber Laser Applications (FILAS) 2011 paper: FThE15
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• Wan, Peng; Liu, Jian; Yang, Lihmei; Amzajerdian, Farzin
• Ultra low repetition rate high energy ns pulsed fiber laser is realized. 100 µJ pulse energy was obtained at all fiber based 1550 nm laser at Hz level.

Intracavity absorption spectroscopy with Er-doped fiber lasers

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• Fiber Laser Applications (FILAS) 2011 paper: FThE16
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• Fjodorow, Peter; Baev, Valeri M; Löhden, Benjamin; Kuznetsova, Svetlana; Cheskis, Sergey
• Intracavity absorption spectroscopy with a broadband Er-doped fiber laser is applied to measure the concentration, temperature and chemical reactions of several gases in flames....