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 …

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 …

Lévy statistics and the glassy behavior of light in random fiber lasers

CB De Araújo, ASL Gomes, EP Raposo - Applied Sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
The interest in random fiber lasers (RFLs), first demonstrated one decade ago, is still
growing and their basic characteristics have been studied by several authors. RFLs are …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Low-noise high-order Raman fiber laser pumped by random lasing

B Han, Y Rao, H Wu, J Yao, H Guan, R Ma, Z Wang - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Raman fiber lasers (RFLs) have been widely utilized in long-haul optical transmission
systems as pump sources for distributed Raman amplification (DRA) to increase …

Spectrally programmable Raman fiber laser with adaptive wavefront sha**

Y Zhang, S Wang, M She, Y Rao, W Zhang - Photonics Research, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Raman fiber lasers (RFLs) have broadband tunability due to cascaded stimulated Raman
scattering, providing extensive degrees of freedom for spectral manipulation. However, the …

175-km repeaterless BOTDA with hybrid high-order random fiber laser amplification

Y Fu, R Zhu, B Han, H Wu, YJ Rao… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-order random fiber laser amplification (RFLA) is an effective way for realization of
ultralong optical transmission and sensing. However, potential issues such as modulation …

Incoherently pumped high-power linearly-polarized single-mode random fiber laser: experimental investigations and theoretical prospects

J Xu, Z Lou, J Ye, J Wu, J Leng, H **ao, H Zhang… - Optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We present a hundred-watt-level linearly-polarized random fiber laser (RFL) pumped by
incoherent broadband amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) source and prospect the …