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Mid-Infrared Fiber Sources: Challenges and Opportunities

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Abstract

The challenge to create efficient mid-infrared laser photons is driven by the vast number of applications that could potentially benefit from operating in the mid-infrared. All chemical and biological compounds that are relevant to our health, our security and the environment interact strongly with light at mid-infrared wavelengths. Bodily tissues for example, have strong absorption in the mid-infrared allowing opportunities for accurate and sterile surgery; the atmospheric transmission window between 3 µm and 5 µm of the mid-infrared provides opportunities in free-space communication, astronomy and remote sensing and importantly, a large number of industrial materials have strong absorption features in the 3 µm region providing exciting prospects for precision processing at mass-production output levels. The primary platform materials of integrated optics such as silicon, germanium and chalcogenide glass are being engineered for application in the mid-infrared in an effort to create compact and low cost technologies for portable point-of-care devices that can be deployed in challenging and resource-limited environments. Reliable, efficient and powerful sources of mid-infrared laser radiation will strengthen the global research effort in mid-infrared science.

© 2014 Optical Society of America

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