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 …

Optical wave turbulence: Towards a unified nonequilibrium thermodynamic formulation of statistical nonlinear optics

A Picozzi, J Garnier, T Hansson, P Suret, S Randoux… - Physics Reports, 2014 - Elsevier
The nonlinear propagation of coherent optical fields has been extensively explored in the
framework of nonlinear optics, while the linear propagation of incoherent fields has been …

The laminar–turbulent transition in a fibre laser

EG Turitsyna, SV Smirnov, S Sugavanam, N Tarasov… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Studying the transition from a linearly stable coherent laminar state to a highly disordered
state of turbulence is conceptually and technically challenging, and of great interest because …

Multiwavelength generation in a random distributed feedback fiber laser using an all fiber Lyot filter

S Sugavanam, Z Yan, V Kamynin, AS Kurkov… - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Multiwavelength lasing in the random distributed feedback fiber laser is demonstrated by
employing an all fiber Lyot filter. Stable multiwavelength generation is obtained, with each …

Narrow-band generation in random distributed feedback fiber laser

S Sugavanam, N Tarasov, X Shu, DV Churkin - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
Narrow-band emission of spectral width down to~ 0.05 nm line-width is achieved in the
random distributed feedback fiber laser employing narrow-band fiber Bragg grating or fiber …

Cascaded random distributed feedback Raman fiber laser operating at 1.2 μm

ID Vatnik, DV Churkin, SA Babin, SK Turitsyn - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a CW random distributed feedback Raman fiber laser operating in a 1.2 μm
spectral band. The laser generates up to 3.8 W of the quasi-CW radiation at 1175 nm with …

Modeling of CW Yb-doped fiber lasers with highly nonlinear cavity dynamics

SK Turitsyn, AE Bednyakova, MP Fedoruk, AI Latkin… - Optics …, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We develop a theoretical framework for modeling of continuous wave Yb-doped fiber lasers
with highly nonlinear cavity dynamics. The developed approach has shown good agreement …

Inverse four-wave mixing and self-parametric amplification in optical fibre

SK Turitsyn, AE Bednyakova, MP Fedoruk… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
An important group of nonlinear processes in optical fibre involve the mixing of four waves
due to the intensity dependence of the refractive index. It is customary to distinguish …

Modeling of spectral and statistical properties of a random distributed feedback fiber laser

SV Smirnov, DV Churkin - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
For the first time we report full numerical NLSE-based modeling of generation properties of
random distributed feedback fiber laser based on Rayleigh scattering. The model which …