3rd Edition

Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers

Edited By Michel J.F. Digonnet Copyright 2026
764 Pages 410 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

764 Pages 410 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers , Third Edition, provides an in-depth description of the basic principles, operating characteristics, theoretical models, and current technology of the main fiber lasers and amplifiers based on rare-earth-doped silica, fluorozirconate, and other non-oxide fibers. Written by some of the most prominent experts in the field, it contains new and revised... Read more

Chapter 1: Rare-Earth-Doped Silica Fiber Fabrication 

Chapter 2: Optical and Electronic Properties of Rare-Earth Ions in Glasses

Chapter 3: Basics of Continuous-Wave Silica Fiber Lasers

Chapter 4: Visible Fluoride Fiber Lasers 

Chapter 5: Single-Frequency Fiber Lasers 

Chapter 7: Q-switched Fiber Lasers

Chapter 8: Specialty Large-Core Fibers For Power Scaling

Chapter 9: High-Power Single-Mode Ytterbium-Doped Fiber Lasers

Chapter 10: Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers

Chapter 11: Thulium-Doped Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers at 2 µm

Chapter 12: Rare-Earth-Doped Infrared-Transmitting Glass Fibers 

Chapter 13: Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers: Basic Physics and Characteristics

Chapter 14: Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers: Recent Advances

Chapter 15: Few-Mode Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers

Chapter 16: High-Performance Ultrashort-Pulse Fiber Lasers

Biography

Michel J. F. Digonnet is a professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. His current research activities center mostly on advanced fiber and microelectromechanical sensors, in particular fiber optic gyroscopes, fiber hydrophones and microphones, strain sensors, and exceptional points in sensors, as well as optical cooling of fiber lasers and amplifiers.