International Journal of Optics

Advances in Lasers and Optical Amplifiers: Materials, Components and Systems


Publishing date
20 Jul 2012
Status
Published
Submission deadline
02 Mar 2012

1Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Ambiente e per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile (DIASS), Politecnico di Bari, Viale del Turismo 8, 74100 Taranto, Italy

2ICB, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, UMR 5209 CNRS-Université de Bourgogne, 9 Avenue, Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 Dijon, France

3Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica (DEE), Politecnico di Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70100 Bari, Italy


Advances in Lasers and Optical Amplifiers: Materials, Components and Systems

Description

The advances in lasers and optical amplifiers enable a tremendous potential to satisfy a lot of nowadays human needs by playing a fundamental and strategic role in the development of the current and future optical systems, designed to be employed in the field of communication, medical diagnostics and therapy, remote sensing, material processing, directed energy application, and a lot of other areas. The investigation and application of nonlinear optics will allow to increase the laser performance, for example, by exploiting pulse compression, ultrafast pulse techniques, harmonic generation, and wavelength conversion. Therefore, the development of novel optical materials and the application of novel ideas in optics will permit the fabrication of innovative high-performance active devices, in both fiber and planar technology, by reducing their size and cost, with disruptive effects on the day to day life. Worldwide research efforts are nowadays focused on new/future and existing materials, novel modeling approaches, and fabrication and characterization techniques, with the aim to improve the characteristics of the active optical devices and systems operating in UV, NIR, and Mid-IR wavelength ranges.

We invite investigators to contribute original research articles as well as review articles that explore advances in lasers and optical amplifiers: materials, design and characterization, nonlinear optics and other components for laser systems and amplifiers, optical laser sensing for quality of life, health, food safety, ecosustainable technologies, navigation, environmental monitoring and security, and so forth. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Recent development on photonic materials and laser fabrication techniques, microstructured fiber laser, multicore fibers, and beam combining techniques
  • Advances in nonlinear optics for laser systems: nonlinear glasses and crystals, nonlinear devices, wavelength conversion, slow light, pulse shaping, supercontinuum generation, and soliton propagation
  • High-performance active devices: rare-earth, Raman and Brillouin fiber lasers and amplifiers, microsphere amplifiers and lasers, and surface plasmon amplification by stimulated emission SPASER
  • Novel ideas and challenges

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijo/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:


Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 807052
  • - Editorial

Advances in Lasers and Optical Amplifiers: Materials, Components, and Systems

Francesco Prudenzano | Frédéric Smektala | Luciano Mescia
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 575818
  • - Review Article

New Trends in Amplifiers and Sources via Chalcogenide Photonic Crystal Fibers

L. Mescia | F. Smektala | F. Prudenzano
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 808679
  • - Research Article

Modeling of Mid-IR Amplifier Based on an Erbium-Doped Chalcogenide Microsphere

P. Bia | A. Di Tommaso | M. De Sario
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 130517
  • - Research Article

Light Combining for Interferometric Switching

Marco Masi | Mattia Mancinelli | ... | Lorenzo Pavesi
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 764084
  • - Research Article

Detailed Theoretical Model for Adjustable Gain-Clamped Semiconductor Optical Amplifier

Lin Liu | Craig Michie | ... | Ivan Andonovic
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 354156
  • - Review Article

High-Energy Passive Mode-Locking of Fiber Lasers

Edwin Ding | William H. Renninger | ... | J. Nathan Kutz
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 475056
  • - Research Article

Tunable Single-Longitudinal-Mode High-Power Fiber Laser

Jonas K. Valiunas | Gautam Das
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