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 …

[HTML][HTML] Properties and applications of random lasers as emerging light sources and optical sensors: a review

D Ni, M Späth, F Klämpfl, M Hohmann - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
In a random laser (RL), optical feedback arises from multiple scattering instead of
conventional mirrors. RLs generate a laser-like emission, and meanwhile take advantage of …

Observation of Lévy distribution and replica symmetry breaking in random lasers from a single set of measurements

ASL Gomes, EP Raposo, AL Moura, SI Fewo… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Random lasers have been recently exploited as a photonic platform for studies of complex
systems. This cross-disciplinary approach opened up new important avenues for the …

A new class of optical sensors: a random laser based device

E Ignesti, F Tommasi, L Fini, F Martelli, N Azzali… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
In a random laser the optical feedback is provided by scattering rather than by an optical
cavity. Then, since its emission characteristics are very susceptible to the scattering details, it …

Coherent Random Lasing in Subwavelength Quasi‐2D Perovskites

C Fruhling, K Wang, S Chowdhury, X Xu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Quasi‐2D lead halide perovskites have garnered increasing interest as lasing gain media.
Relatively simple fabrication, high refractive index, and unique quantum well structure …

Observation of Lévy statistics in one-dimensional erbium-based random fiber laser

BC Lima, ASL Gomes, PIR Pincheira… - Journal of the Optical …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We report on measurements of the statistical fluctuations of the output intensity in a
continuous-wave-pumped erbium-doped one-dimensional random fiber laser (RFL), with …

Robustness of replica symmetry breaking phenomenology in random laser

F Tommasi, E Ignesti, S Lepri, S Cavalieri - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Random lasers are optical sources where light is amplified by stimulated emission along
random paths through an amplifying scattering medium. Connections between their physics …

Lévy spectral intensity statistics in a Raman random fiber laser

J Li, H Wu, Z Wang, S Lin, C Lu, EP Raposo… - Optics letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The statistical behavior of spectral intensity fluctuations in a Raman gain random fiber laser
is investigated for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. Through a fiber Fabry–Perot …

Lévy exponents as universal identifiers of threshold and criticality in random lasers

R Uppu, S Mujumdar - Physical Review A, 2014 - APS
Critical excitation in random lasers under picosecond and nanosecond pum** was
experimentally studied. The resulting emission intensity statistics were analyzed using fits to …

Extreme-value statistics of intensities in a cw-pumped random fiber laser

BC Lima, PIR Pincheira, EP Raposo, LS Menezes… - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
We report on the extreme-value statistics of output intensities in a one-dimensional cw-
pumped erbium-doped random fiber laser, with a strongly scattering disordered medium …