Comptes rendus Académie des sciences, Physique, tome 7, fasc 2, mars 2006 : high power fiber lasers and amplifiers / Lasers et amplificateurs à fibre ...

Fibers for high-power lasers and amplifiers. Power limitation induced by nonlinear effects in pulsed high-power fiber amplifiers. Millijoule, high-peak power, narrow-linewidth, sub-hundred nanosecond pulsed fibre Master-Oscillator Power-Amplifier at 1.55 mm. Performances and limitations of high brightness Er+3-Yb3+ fiber sources. Ultrafast high power fiber laser systems. Fiber lasers integration for LMJ. Laser source requirements for coherent lidars based on fiber technology. Photonic crystal fibres for lasers and amplifiers. High power multimode fiber amplifier with wavefront reshaping for high beam quality recovery. Coherent combining of fibre lasers.