Gas fiber lasers may represent a breakthrough in creating powerful radiation sources in the mid-IR

Light Sci Appl. 2022 Feb 11;11(1):36. doi: 10.1038/s41377-022-00728-5.

Abstract

Continuous wave fiber laser created on the basis of silica glass negative curvature hollow core fiber filled with HBr make it possible to obtain efficient narrow linewidth mid-IR emission with a maximum laser power of about 500 mW at wavelength of 4200 nm. It is for the first time that emission from a continuous wave fiber laser have been achieved at a wavelength of 4496 nm with the largest tuning range of 686 nm.