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 …

Recent advances in fundamentals and applications of random fiber lasers

DV Churkin, S Sugavanam, ID Vatnik… - Advances in Optics …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Random fiber lasers blend together attractive features of traditional random lasers, such as
low cost and simplicity of fabrication, with high-performance characteristics of conventional …

Lasing in nanocomposite random media

F Luan, B Gu, ASL Gomes, KT Yong, S Wen… - Nano Today, 2015 - Elsevier
Scattering of light by disordered structures is a common phenomenon in our daily life. For
many scientific applications, scattering is often treated as a detrimental effect. However …

Fiber optofluidic microlasers: structures, characteristics, and applications

X Yang, C Gong, C Zhang, Y Wang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, recent progress in fiber optofluidic lasers and their applications in biochemical
detection are reviewed. The unique properties of optical fibers are introduced for the …

Random distributed feedback fibre lasers

SK Turitsyn, SA Babin, DV Churkin, ID Vatnik, M Nikulin… - Physics reports, 2014 - Elsevier
The concept of random lasers exploiting multiple scattering of photons in an amplifying
disordered medium in order to generate coherent light without a traditional laser resonator …

Tunable random fiber laser

SA Babin, AE El-Taher, P Harper, EV Podivilov… - Physical Review A …, 2011 - APS
An optical fiber is treated as a natural one-dimensional random system where lasing is
possible due to a combination of Rayleigh scattering by refractive index inhomogeneities …

High power random fiber laser with short cavity length: theoretical and experimental investigations

Z Wang, H Wu, M Fan, L Zhang, Y Rao… - IEEE Journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we make a comprehensive study on a highly efficient half-open cavity design
for high power random fiber laser (RFL). With the theoretical analysis, we optimize the …

Recent progress and novel applications of photonic crystal fibers

SA Cerqueira - Reports on progress in physics, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Photonic crystal fibers present a wavelength-scale periodic microstructure running along
their length. Their core and two-dimensional photonic crystal might be based on varied …

Demonstration of a 3 mW threshold Er-doped random fiber laser based on a unique fiber Bragg grating

M Gagné, R Kashyap - Optics express, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a novel random laser based on a single fiber Bragg grating. A long fiber
Bragg grating fabrication technique allows the insertion of a large number of randomly …

Raman fiber lasers with a random distributed feedback based on Rayleigh scattering

DV Churkin, SA Babin, AE El-Taher, P Harper… - Physical Review A …, 2010 - APS
We demonstrate lasing based on a random distributed feedback due to the Raman amplified
Rayleigh backscattering in different types of cavities with and without conventional point …