A fiber laser (or fibre laser in Commonwealth English) is a laser in which the active gain medium is an optical fiber doped with rare-earth elements such...
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Specially designed fibers are also used for a variety of other applications, such as fiber optic sensors and fiber lasers. Glass optical fibers are typically...
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short as a femtosecond. Lasers are used in optical disc drives, laser printers, barcode scanners, DNA sequencing instruments, fiber-optic, and free-space...
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Optical amplifier (redirect from Fiber amplifier)
important in optical communication and laser physics. They are used as optical repeaters in the long distance fiber-optic cables which carry much of the...
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in-fiber Bragg grating was demonstrated by Ken Hill in 1978. Initially, the gratings were fabricated using a visible laser propagating along the fiber core...
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2, Arrow 3, David's Sling, Barak 8, and Iron Dome. Iron Beam uses a fiber laser to destroy an airborne target. Whether acting as a stand-alone system...
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A distributed-feedback laser (DFB) is a type of laser diode, quantum-cascade laser or optical-fiber laser where the active region of the device contains...
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A fiber disk laser is a fiber laser with transverse delivery of the pump light. They are characterized by the pump beam not being parallel to the active...
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medium, the Photophone would not prove practical until advances in laser and optical fiber technologies permitted the secure transport of light. The Photophone's...
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tissue. diode lasers dye lasers excimer lasers fiber lasers gas lasers free electron lasers semiconductor diode lasers Examples of procedures, practices, devices...
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Photonics Corporation is a manufacturer of fiber lasers. IPG Photonics developed and commercialized optical fiber lasers, which are used in a variety of applications...
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cutting functions while using the water jet to guide the laser beam, much like an optical fiber, through total internal reflection. The advantages of this...
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muscle fiber, strands of muscle tissue Nerve fiber, strands of nervous tissue Fiber (computer science) Fiber (mathematics) Fiber laser (or fibre laser), a...
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laser is a laser that uses a gain medium that is a solid, rather than a liquid as in dye lasers or a gas as in gas lasers. Semiconductor-based lasers...
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stones. Optical fibers carry light pulses that pulverize the stone. Candela licensed the technology and released the first commercial laser lithotripsy system...
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The second kind of fiber was developed in the late 1980s for use with high power fiber amplifiers and fiber lasers. In these fibers, the core is doped...
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Raman fiber laser based on fiber Bragg gratings has been made. Fiber Bragg gratings are narrow-band reflectors and act as the mirrors of the laser cavity...
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spectrometer. Multi-mode fiber is also used when high optical powers are to be carried through an optical fiber, such as in laser welding. The main difference...
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Mode locking (redirect from Femtosecond laser)
Disk laser Dissipative soliton Femtotechnology Fiber laser Frequency comb Laser construction Q-switching Saturable absorption Solid state laser Soliton...
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chemical studies. A fiber laser is usually generated first from a laser diode. The laser diode then couples the light into a fiber where it will be confined...
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Fibre-optic gyroscope (redirect from Laser/fiber optics gyroscope)
gyroscope Optical heterodyne detection Ring laser gyroscope Quantum gyroscope Vali, V.; Shorthill, R. W. (1976). "Fiber ring interferometer". Applied Optics...
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Iron Beam (category Military lasers)
2, Arrow 3, David's Sling and Iron Dome. Iron Beam uses a fiber laser to generate a laser beam to destroy an airborne target. Whether acting as a stand-alone...
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This is accomplished with a high-power laser beam, usually an ytterbium fiber laser with hundreds of watts. The laser beam is directed in the X and Y directions...
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that include fiber-optic communications, barcode readers, laser pointers, CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc reading/recording, laser printing, laser scanning and light...
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used in various laser products, including computer mice, fiber-optic communications, laser printers, Face ID, and smartglasses. There are several advantages...
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adaptive optics. Each laser delivers 22 watts in a diameter of 30 cm (12 in). The 4LGSF Laser System is based on a fiber Raman laser technology, developed...
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A fiber-optic cable, also known as an optical-fiber cable, is an assembly similar to an electrical cable but containing one or more optical fibers that...
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laser. It can be performed using CO2 lasers, Nd:YAG lasers, Diode lasers and Fiber lasers. When a laser encounters the surface of plastics, it can be reflected...
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2009, the first dark soliton fiber laser has been successfully achieved in an all-normal dispersion erbium-doped fiber laser with a polarizer in cavity...
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the ring is not a part of the laser. Rather, an external laser injects counter-propagating beams into an optical fiber ring, where rotation causes a relative...
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