Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Lasers and Bragg Grating Sensors
This community develops high-power and ultrafast laser sources using rare-earth-doped optical fibers, alongside fiber-based sensing technologies for structural, environmental, and biomedical monitoring.
The work centers on designing mode-locked and Q-switched fiber lasers using erbium, thulium, and ytterbium dopants to generate stable pulses. A significant portion of the research focuses on saturable absorbers and nonlinear dynamics to control pulse generation. Concurrently, the community develops Fiber Bragg Gratings and distributed acoustic sensing systems for measuring strain, temperature, and vibration. Applications span structural health monitoring in civil engineering, marine environment observation, and gas concentration detection via spectroscopy.
The largest share of the community's output is found in erbium research, accounting for 51.7% of that element's tracked literature, with 5,395 papers in this group. Ytterbium and thulium also contribute significantly, representing 34.2% and 33.0% of their respective element research, with 1,508 and 1,816 papers here.
The community comprises 25,695 papers, publishing primarily in Optics Express, Optical Fiber Technology, and Optics & Laser Technology.
Recent work includes the development of low-attenuation broadband optical fiber, high-power laser delivery over hollow-core fiber, and advanced gas sensing techniques using light-induced thermoelastic spectroscopy.
Papers behind this description
- Inhomogeneity, magnetic auto-Bäcklund transformations and magnetic solitons for a generalized variable-coefficient Kraenkel-Manna-Merle system in a deformed ferrite — Applied Mathematics Letters, 2025 — doi:10.1016/j.aml.2025.109615
- Open-Ocean Shallow-Water Dynamics via a (2+1)-Dimensional Generalized Variable-Coefficient Hirota-Satsuma-Ito System: Oceanic Auto-Bäcklund Transformation and Oceanic Solitons — China Ocean Engineering, 2025 — doi:10.1007/s13344-025-0057-y
- Deep Learning for Dynamic Modeling and Coded Information Storage of Vector‐Soliton Pulsations in Mode‐Locked Fiber Lasers — Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2024 — doi:10.1002/lpor.202400097
- Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors: Design, Applications, and Comparison with Other Sensing Technologies — Sensors, 2025 — doi:10.3390/s25072289
- Distributed fiber optic sensors for tunnel monitoring: A state-of-the-art review — Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 2024 — doi:10.1016/j.jrmge.2024.01.008
- Optical fiber sensing for marine environment and marine structural health monitoring: A review — Optics & Laser Technology, 2021 — doi:10.1016/j.optlastec.2021.107082
- Polymer optical fiber and fiber Bragg grating sensors for biomedical engineering Applications: A comprehensive review — Optics & Laser Technology, 2024 — doi:10.1016/j.optlastec.2023.110187
- Ultrahigh Sensitive LITES Sensor Based on a Trilayer Ultrathin Perfect Absorber Coated T‐Head Quartz Tuning Fork — Laser & Photonics Review, 2025 — doi:10.1002/lpor.202402107
- Fiber Bragg grating (FBG)-based sensors: a review of technology and recent applications in structural health monitoring (SHM) of civil engineering structures — Discover Civil Engineering, 2024 — doi:10.1007/s44290-024-00141-4
- Optical fiber sensor based on SPR and MZI for seawater salinity and temperature measurement — Optics & Laser Technology, 2023 — doi:10.1016/j.optlastec.2023.109315
- Overview of Radiation Effects on Silica-Based Optical Fibers and Fiber Sensors — IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 2025 — doi:10.1109/tns.2024.3511455
- Systematic review of fiber-optic distributed acoustic sensing: advancements, applications, and challenges — Optical Fiber Technology, 2025 — doi:10.1016/j.yofte.2025.104293
- Real‐Time Observation of Breathing Vortex Solitons in a Yb:CALGO Laser — Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2025 — doi:10.1002/lpor.202501758
- All-fiber highly efficient delivery of 2 kW laser over 2.45 km hollow-core fiber — Nature Communications, 2025 — doi:10.1038/s41467-025-64073-y
- Wavefront shaping enables high-power multimode fiber amplifier with output focus — Science, 2025 — doi:10.1126/science.ady2226
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Optical Fiber Sensors: A Review — Sensors, 2025 — doi:10.3390/s25247442
- A fiber Bragg grating (FBG)-strain sensing tube for deep displacement measurement — Optics & Laser Technology, 2025 — doi:10.1016/j.optlastec.2025.112938