Active Optical Fibers and Broadband Fiber-Based Devices
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "D：Materials and Processing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (9 April 2024) | Viewed by 139
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fiber-based devices; active doped fiber
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to publish your research in this Special Issue on “Active Optical Fibers and Broadband Fiber-Based Devices” in Micromachines. Active fibers are optical fibers that have one or more laser-active dopants in the fiber core. In most cases, they are rare-earth-doped fibers, with dopants like ytterbium, erbium or thulium. Due to those dopants, they can be used as laser gain media, also for realizing fiber amplifiers. In the past twenty years, the traditional rare-earth doped fibers plus newly invented or created laser-active fibers have revolutionized the field of fiber-based devices, which are widely applied to optical-fiber communication, medicine, imaging and optical sensing, etc. This Special Issue aims to solicit relevant work in broadband doped fiber devices (superluminescent sources, fiber amplifiers, fiber lasers) based on traditional or newly developed laser-active medium. The broadband active fiber devices can be flexibly applied to all areas of “internet of things (IoT)”, including fiber-optic communication systems, astrophysics, optical sensing, imaging, and medicine. We anticipate a diverse array of active fiber-based technologies contributions from various fields including:
- Manufacturing technology of active doped silica/polymer fibers
- Broadband active fiber amplifiers
- All types of active fiber lasers
- Physical quantity sensors based on active fibers
- Active fiber-based optical Devices
High-quality research articles, communications, as well as reviews, are welcome.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Gang Ding Peng
Dr. Qiancheng Zhao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- active fibers
- fiber-based devices
- broadband fiber amplifiers
- fiber lasers
- active fiber sensors
- optical fiber systems
