4. Applications
In this section, we present the main industrial and scientific fields in which fiber lasers are used, as well as a few more marginal applications that are nonetheless representative of the advantages offered by these sources. Of course, this brief presentation does not claim to be exhaustive, and the field of applications is evolving rapidly with technological developments.
4.1 Optical telecommunications
Rare-earth-doped fibers have historically been developed in the context of optical telecommunications. Indeed, the development of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers has enabled an explosion in the performance of these systems in terms of throughput-distance product, by doing away with regenerative repeaters based on fast electronics. In telecommunications systems,...
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