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 …

A comprehensive review of ZnO materials and devices

Ü Özgür, YI Alivov, C Liu, A Teke… - Journal of applied …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
The semiconductor ZnO has gained substantial interest in the research community in part
because of its large exciton binding energy (60 meV) which could lead to lasing action …

Light in correlated disordered media

K Vynck, R Pierrat, R Carminati, LS Froufe-Pérez… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
The optics of correlated disordered media is a conceptually rich research topic emerging at
the interface between the physics of waves in complex media and nanophotonics. Inspired …

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 …

The physics and applications of random lasers

DS Wiersma - Nature physics, 2008 - nature.com
Recent developments in the field of micro and nanophotonics have shown that it is possible
to make use of the intrinsic disorder in photonic materials to create useful optical structures …

Random laser action in semiconductor powder

H Cao, YG Zhao, ST Ho, EW Seelig, QH Wang… - Physical Review Letters, 1999 - APS
We report the first observation of random laser action with coherent feedback in
semiconductor powder. Since the scattering mean free path is less than the emission …

Optical properties of ZnO nanostructures

AB Djurišić, YH Leung - small, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We present a review of current research on the optical properties of ZnO nanostructures. We
provide a brief introduction to different fabrication methods for various ZnO nanostructures …

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 …

Lasing in random media

H Cao - Waves in random media, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
A random laser is a non-conventional laser whose feedback mechanism is based on
disorder-induced light scattering. Depending on whether the feedback supplied by …

Random lasing in human tissues

RC Polson, ZV Vardeny - Applied physics letters, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
A random collection of scatterers in a gain medium can produce coherent laser emission
lines dubbed “random lasing.” We show that biological tissues, including human tissues, can …