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 …

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 …

Harnessing disorder for photonic device applications

H Cao, Y Eliezer - Applied Physics Reviews, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
For photonic devices, structural disorder and light scattering have long been considered
annoying and detrimental features that were best avoided or minimized. This review shows …

Widely tunable continuous-wave visible and mid-infrared light generation based on a dual-wavelength switchable and tunable random Raman fiber laser

H Wu, W Wang, B Hu, Y Li, K Tian, R Ma, C Li… - Photonics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Nonlinear frequency conversion of wavelength agile and high-power random fiber lasers
can provide a promising way to generate continuous-wave (CW) visible and mid-infrared …

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 …

Long-distance fiber-optic point-sensing systems based on random fiber lasers

ZN Wang, YJ Rao, H Wu, PY Li, Y Jiang, XH Jia… - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We find that the random fiber laser (RFL) without point-reflectors is a temperature-insensitive
distributed lasing system for the first time. Inspired by such thermal stability, we propose the …

[HTML][HTML] Nearly-octave wavelength tuning of a continuous wave fiber laser

L Zhang, H Jiang, X Yang, W Pan, S Cui, Y Feng - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
The wavelength tunability of conventional fiber lasers are limited by the bandwidth of gain
spectrum and the tunability of feedback mechanism. Here a fiber laser which is continuously …

[HTML][HTML] High-order random Raman lasing in a PM fiber with ultimate efficiency and narrow bandwidth

SA Babin, EA Zlobina, SI Kablukov, EV Podivilov - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Random Raman lasers attract now a great deal of attention as they operate in non-active
turbid or transparent scattering media. In the last case, single mode fibers with feedback via …

Multi-wavelength random fiber laser with a spectral-flexible characteristic

S Li, J Xu, J Liang, J Ye, Y Zhang, X Ma, J Leng… - Photonics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
In past decades, multi-wavelength lasers have attracted much attention due to their wide
applications in many fields. In this paper, we demonstrate a multi-wavelength random fiber …

[HTML][HTML] Fiber amplifiers and fiber lasers based on stimulated Raman scattering: a review

L Sirleto, MA Ferrara - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Nowadays, in fiber optic communications the growing demand in terms of transmission
capacity has been fulfilling the entire spectral band of the erbium-doped fiber amplifiers …