Reza Salem

Fiber Laser Division Manager – Laser Division, Thorlabs

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Reza Salem is Fiber Laser Division Manager – Laser Division at Thorlabs (Jessup, MD).

FIGURE 1. Attenuation of optical fibers made of fluoride glasses, showing a significantly wider transmission window into the mid-IR as compared to silica fibers. Indium fluoride (InF3) glass has a wider transmission window in the mid-IR than zirconium fluoride (ZrF4) glass.

Lasers & Sources

Mid-IR supercontinuum laser covers key spectral bands for spectroscopy

Reza Salem

April 21, 2021

A commercially available mid-IR supercontinuum source has a broadband output from 1.3 to 4.5 μm, providing orders-of-magnitude higher brightness than thermal IR sources.