Stuart Jackson received the BSc and the BSc(Hons) degrees in 1989 and 1990 respectively from the University of Newcastle (Australia). In 1990, he joined the Centre for Lasers and Applications at Macquarie University to undertake research toward the PhD degree, which he received in 1996. In 1995, he joined the Laser Photonics Group at the University of Manchester and initiated the research there into high power fibre laser development. In 1999 he joined the Optical Fibre Technology Centre at the University of Sydney where he became a Senior Research Fellow and Technical Manager of silicate fibre fabrication. In 2009 he joined the School of Physics at the University of Sydney as a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow funded by the Australia Research Council. In 2014 he joined Macquarie University’s School of Engineering. His interests include diode-pumped solid-state lasers, spectroscopy, nonlinear optics and integrated optics. Dr. Réal Vallée is a full Professor in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Optics at Université Laval, Québec, Canada. His interests include mid-Infrared sources and components, laser-matter interaction and photo-inscribed integrated photonic devices. Dr. Martin Bernier is a professor in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Optics at Université Laval, Québec, Canada. His interests include Bragg gratings inscribed by femtosecond lasers in various transparent materials as well as the development of Bragg grating-based fiber lasers and sensors.

• Section 1: Optical glasses and fibers for high nonlinearity, rare earth doping and high transparency in the mid-infrared1. Chalcogenide materials for mid-wave infrared fibers2. Fluoride glass and optical fiber fabrication3. Oxide glass and optical fiber fabricationSection 2: Post-processing of mid-infrared transparent optical fiber4. Optical fibre fabrication for fluoride, chalcogenide and oxide glasses5. Post-processing soft glass optical fibersSection 3: Spectroscopy of the rare earth ions for mid-infrared emission6. Energy transfer processes in rare-earth-doped glass fiber7. Spectroscopy of the rare-earth-ion transitions in fluoride glasses8. Breaking through the wavelength barrier: The state-of-play on rare-earth ion, mid-infrared fiber lasers for the 4–10 mm wavelength regionSection 4: Fiber sources for continuous wave emission9. High-power continuous wave mid-infrared fluoride glass fiber lasersSection 5: Fiber sources involving pulsed emission10. Q-switched and gain-switched mid-infrared fluoride glass fiber lasers11.  Mode-locked mid-infrared fiber systems12.  Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation13. Modeling mid-infrared fiber laser systems