Photonics and optoelectronics
High-performance ultrafast fibre lasers for biomedical applications
Ultrafast lasers providing femtosecond pulses are enabling a rapidly increasing range of applications in science and industry, including physics, chemistry, medicine, biology, and materials processing. A large part of this relies on the transition from bulky, expensive, and maintenance-intensive Ti:sapphire lasers to fiber lasers. Ultrafast fibre lasers are superior in format and convenience, offering great advantages in terms of high efficiency, good compactness, low cost, and free of maintenance, which has become one of the main hot topics in laser science.