Applications of Microstructured Optical Fibers in Ultrafast Optics: A Review

With the development of laser technology, microstructured optical fibers (MOFs) have become an important part of ultrafast optics, providing excellent platforms for ultrafast laser pulse generation, amplification, and compression, promoting the development of fiber laser systems to generate high pow...

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Published in:Photonics 2024-02, Vol.11 (2), p.151
Main Authors: Tang, Ziwen, Zheng, Zihua, Li, Boyao, Wei, Zhiyi, Sun, Jinghua
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Equipment and supplies
Fiber lasers
Fiber optics
Fibers
Frequency shift
Harmonic generations
Lasers
Light
Light sources
microstructured optical fiber
Optical fibers
Optics
photonic crystal fiber
Science
Solitary waves
Spectroscopy
Ultrafast lasers
ultrafast optics
Ultraviolet radiation
Wave dispersion
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Summary:With the development of laser technology, microstructured optical fibers (MOFs) have become an important part of ultrafast optics, providing excellent platforms for ultrafast laser pulse generation, amplification, and compression, promoting the development of fiber laser systems to generate high power, high pulse energy, and few-cycle duration pulses. MOFs extend the ultrafast laser spectrum to the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) and even extreme ultraviolet (EUV) regions based on dispersive wave emission and high harmonic generation, as well as to the mid-infrared region based on soliton self-frequency shift (SSFS), contributing compact and low-cost light sources for precision microscopy and spectroscopy. In this paper, first several common types of MOFs are introduced, then the various applications of MOFs in ultrafast optics are discussed, mainly focusing on the aspects of ultrafast laser pulse scaling in pulse energy and spectral bandwidth, and finally the possible prospects of MOFs are given.
ISSN:2304-6732
2304-6732
DOI:10.3390/photonics11020151