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Surface-emitting fibre lasers

Perfect ring-like beam

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Fibre lasers capable of producing stable, axially symmetric ring-like radiation from an extended surface may prove to be an important new light source for applications in medical imaging, sensing, bio-sensing and security systems.

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Figure 1: Illustration of laser operation.
Figure 2: Two types of modes with different angular momentum m.

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  1. Department of Electromagnetism and Telecommunication at the University of Mons, Andrei A. Fotiadi and Patrice Mégret are in the Photonics@be (IAP VI, BelSPo) group, 31, Boulevard Dolez, Mons, B-7000, Belgium,

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  2. Andrei A. Fotiadi is also with the Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia and Ulyanovsk State University, Ulyanovsk, Russia,

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