Designing Fiber for Better Lasers
Fiber lasers are becoming increasingly popular alternatives for applications that require high power — hundreds of watts to kilowatts — such as materials processing, surgery and biochemistry. Their high efficiency, enviable beam quality, small footprint and low maintenance requirements make them ideal replacements for many other types of lasers that have dominated the marketplace in recent decades.
Although it seems counterintuitive that a tiny glass fiber, roughly the diameter of a human...
Photonics Spectra, February 2007