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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsSection 1: Optical glasses and fibers for high nonlinearity, rare earth doping and high transparency in the mid-infrared 1. Chalcogenide materials for mid-wave infrared fibers 2. Fluoride glass and optical fiber fabrication 3. Oxide glass and optical fiber fabrication Section 2: Post-processing of mid-infrared transparent optical fiber 4. Optical fibre fabrication for fluoride, chalcogenide and oxide glasses 5. Post-processing soft glass optical fibers Section 3: Spectroscopy of the rare earth ions for mid-infrared emission 6. Energy transfer processes in rare-earth-doped glass fiber 7. Spectroscopy of the rare-earth-ion transitions in fluoride glasses 8. Breaking through the wavelength barrier: The state-of-play on rare-earth ion, mid-infrared fiber lasers for the 4–10 mm wavelength region Section 4: Fiber sources for continuous wave emission 9. High-power continuous wave mid-infrared fluoride glass fiber lasers Section 5: Fiber sources involving pulsed emission 10. Q-switched and gain-switched mid-infrared fluoride glass fiber lasers 11. Mode-locked mid-infrared fiber systems 12. Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation 13. Modeling mid-infrared fiber laser systems
