• Design and optimize lasers and amplifiers based on doped and undoped fibers

  • Prototype power boosters, in-line amplifiers and preamplifiers in C-, L- and S-bands for telecommunications

  • Develop high-power large-mode-area cladding-pumped fiber lasers and amplifiers

  • Study and optimize diverse multistage, multiband and multipass amplifier designs

  • Perform gain flattening with gain equalization filters (GEF)

  • Suppress power transients by dynamic electrical or optical gain control schemes

  • Design co-doped waveguide amplifiers from waveguide dimensions upwards

  • Assess implementation options for Raman amplifiers and lasers

  • Investigate and optimize bidirectional Raman multipump configurations

  • Develop cascaded Raman amplifiers and lasers with higher-order pumping

  • Realize phase-sensitive and phase-insensitive parametric fiber amplifiers

  • Study implementation options for continuous-wave and Q-switched pulsed fiber lasers

  • Generate and propagate ultrashort pulses in nonlinear dispersive fibers

  • Study applications based on soliton effects

  • Investigate physical processes leading to supercontinuum generation

  • Perform optical signal processing based on nonlinear effects in fibers