@article{Jobin:22, author = {Fr\'{e}d\'{e}ric Jobin and Pascal Paradis and Yi\u{g}it Ozan Aydin and Tommy Boilard and Vincent Fortin and Jean-Christophe Gauthier and Maxime Lemieux-Tanguay and S\'{e}bastien Magnan-Saucier and Louis-Charles Michaud and Sara Mondor and Louis-Philippe Pleau and Lauris Talbot and Martin Bernier and R\'{e}al Vall\'{e}e}, journal = {Opt. Express}, keywords = {Fiber lasers; Laser light; Laser sources; Optical components; Solid state lasers; Ultrafast lasers}, number = {6}, pages = {8615--8640}, publisher = {OSA}, title = {Recent developments in lanthanide-doped mid-infrared fluoride fiber lasers \[Invited\]}, volume = {30}, month = {Mar}, year = {2022}, url = {http://opg.optica.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-30-6-8615}, doi = {10.1364/OE.450929}, abstract = {Mid-infrared fiber sources, emitting between 2.5 \&\#x00B5;m and 5.0 \&\#x00B5;m, are interesting for their great potential in several application fields such as material processing, biomedicine, remote sensing and infrared countermeasures due to their high-power, their diffraction-limited beam quality as well as their robust monolithic architecture. In this review, we will focus on the recent progress in continuous wave and pulsed mid-infrared fiber lasers and the components that bring these laser sources closer to a field deployment as well as in industrial systems. Accordingly, we will briefly illustrate the potential of such mid-infrared fiber lasers through a few selected applications.}, }