Recent advances and applications of random lasers and random fiber lasers

ASL Gomes, AL Moura, CB de Araújo… - Progress in Quantum …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Random Lasers (RLs) and Random Fiber Lasers (RFLs) have been the subject of
intense research since their first experimental demonstration in 1994 and 2007, respectively …

Lévy statistics and the glassy behavior of light in random fiber lasers

CB De Araújo, ASL Gomes, EP Raposo - Applied Sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
The interest in random fiber lasers (RFLs), first demonstrated one decade ago, is still
growing and their basic characteristics have been studied by several authors. RFLs are …

Multimode random fiber laser for speckle-free imaging

R Ma, YJ Rao, WL Zhang, B Hu - IEEE journal of selected topics …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Light sources with high radiance are increasingly required for full-field real-time imaging.
Conventional lasing sources are poorly suited for such imaging due to their high spatial or …

Transient replica symmetry breaking in Brillouin random fiber lasers

L Zhang, J Zhang, F Pang, T Wang, L Chen, X Bao - PhotoniX, 2023 - Springer
Replica symmetry breaking (RSB), as a featured phase transition between paramagnetic
and spin glass state in magnetic systems, has been predicted and validated among random …

Multi-color switchable visible light source generated via nonlinear frequency conversion of a random fiber laser

H Wu, W Wang, B Hu, R Ma, J Liu, H Liang - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Nonlinear frequency conversion of random fiber lasers could provide new possibilities to
realize visible and mid-infrared light with flexible wavelength and low temporal/spatial …

Halide perovskite 3D photonic crystals for distributed feedback lasers

S Schünemann, S Brittman, K Chen, EC Garnett… - Acs …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Halide perovskites are under intense investigation for light harvesting applications in solar
cells. Their outstanding optoelectronic properties such as long charge carrier diffusion …

Optical rogue wave in random fiber laser

J Xu, J Wu, J Ye, J Song, B Yao, H Zhang… - Photonics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The famous demonstration of optical rogue waves (RWs), a powerful tool to reveal the
fundamental physics in different laser scenarios, opened a flourishing time for temporal …

Observation of replica symmetry breaking in disordered nonlinear wave propagation

D Pierangeli, A Tavani, F Di Mei, AJ Agranat… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
A landmark of statistical mechanics, spin-glass theory describes critical phenomena in
disordered systems that range from condensed matter to biophysics and social dynamics …

Temporal ghost imaging using wavelength conversion and two-color detection

H Wu, P Ryczkowski, AT Friberg, JM Dudley, G Genty - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Ghost imaging constructs an image by correlating two signals: one that interacts with an
object but possesses no spatial information, and the other that contains spatial information …

Distributed vibration sensor with a lasing phase-sensitive OTDR

MM Correia, W Margulis, ASL Gomes… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The authors experimentally demonstrate the operation of a lasing phase-sensitive optical
time-domain reflectometer (Φ-OTDR) based on random feedback from a sensing fiber. Here …