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 …

Spectrally periodic pulses for enhancement of optical nonlinear effects

JP Lourdesamy, AFJ Runge, TJ Alexander… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Nonlinear optical effects are typically weak and enhancement techniques are often required
for practical applications. Here we introduce a method to enhance such effects by …

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 …

Short cavity-length random fiber laser with record power and ultrahigh efficiency

X Du, H Zhang, X Wang, P Zhou, Z Liu - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We report the result of achieving a random fiber laser (RFL) with record 200-W-level power
output. The highest output power is realized by a simple 120 m long cavity at a working …

Fiber-based dynamically tunable Lyot filter for dual-wavelength and tunable single-wavelength mode-locking of fiber lasers

Y Zhu, Z Cui, X Sun, T Shirahata, L Jin, S Yamashita… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We propose and demonstrate a novel dynamically tunable fiber-based Lyot filter for the
realization of a dual-wavelength mode-locked fiber laser, operating at center wavelengths of …

Ultra-wide wavelength tuning of a cascaded Raman random fiber laser

L Zhang, H Jiang, X Yang, W Pan, Y Feng - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
An ultra-broadband tunable cascaded Raman random fiber laser pumped by a tunable
(1020–1080 nm) ytterbium-doped fiber laser is investigated. By continuously adjusting the …

Single-mode SOA-based 1kHz-linewidth dual-wavelength random fiber laser

Y Xu, L Zhang, L Chen, X Bao - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Narrow-linewidth multi-wavelength fiber lasers are of significant interests for fiber-optic
sensors, spectroscopy, optical communications, and microwave generation. A novel narrow …

High-efficiency generation in a short random fiber laser

ID Vatnik, DV Churkin, EV Podivilov… - Laser Physics …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We demonstrate a high-efficiency random lasing in a 850 m span of a phosphosilicate fiber.
Random distributed feedback owing to the Rayleigh backscattering in the fiber enables …

High power tunable multiwavelength random fiber laser at 1.3 μm waveband

Y Zhang, J Ye, X Ma, J Xu, J Song, T Yao, P Zhou - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Multiwavelength fiber lasers, especially those operating at optical communication
wavebands such as 1.3 μm and 1.5 μm wavebands, have huge demands in wavelength …