MID-INFRARED FIBER PHOTONICS

<p>Section 1: Optical glasses and fibers for high nonlinearity, rare earth doping and high transparency in the mid-infrared</p> <p>1. Chalcogenide materials for mid-wave infrared fibers</p> <p>2. Fluoride glass and optical fiber fabrication</p> <p>3. Oxide glass and optical fiber fabrication</p> <p>Section 2: Post-processing of mid-infrared transparent optical fiber</p> <p>4. Optical fibre fabrication for fluoride, chalcogenide and oxide glasses</p> <p>5. Post-processing soft glass optical fibers</p> <p>Section 3: Spectroscopy of the rare earth ions for mid-infrared emission</p> <p>6. Energy transfer processes in rare-earth-doped glass fiber</p> <p>7. Spectroscopy of the rare-earth-ion transitions in fluoride glasses</p> <p>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</p> <p>Section 4: Fiber sources for continuous wave emission</p> <p>9. High-power continuous wave mid-infrared fluoride glass fiber lasers</p> <p>Section 5: Fiber sources involving pulsed emission</p> <p>10. Q-switched and gain-switched mid-infrared fluoride glass fiber lasers</p> <p>11.  Mode-locked mid-infrared fiber systems</p> <p>12.  Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation</p> <p>13. Modeling mid-infrared fiber laser systems</p>