Gas-filled microstructured hollow-core fibers (MS-HCFs) have demonstrated many advantages as a minimized gas cell and shown the promising potential of reforming the bulky gas laser[
Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 20, Issue 7, 071401(2022)
Low-threshold continuous operation of fiber gas Raman laser based on large-core anti-resonant hollow-core fiber
Continuous operation of fiber gas Raman lasing at the 1135 nm wavelength is experimentally demonstrated with an output power exceeding 26 W. Rotational stimulated Raman scattering (Rot-SRS) is generated in the hydrogen gas filled 50 m homemade anti-resonant hollow-core fiber (AR-HCF). A single-frequency fiber laser at the 1064 nm wavelength is used as the pump source, and a minimum threshold of 31.5 W is measured where the core diameter of AR-HCF reaches 37 µm. Up to 40.4% power conversion efficiency of forward Rot-SRS is achieved in the single-pass configuration, corresponding to a quantum efficiency of 43.1%. Over 1 W strong backward Rot-SRS is observed in the experiment, ultimately limiting the further increase of Rot-SRS generation in the forward direction.
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Gas-filled microstructured hollow-core fibers (MS-HCFs) have demonstrated many advantages as a minimized gas cell and shown the promising potential of reforming the bulky gas laser[
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Xinyue Zhu, Fei Yu, Dakun Wu, Yan Feng, Shufen Chen, Yi Jiang, Lili Hu. Low-threshold continuous operation of fiber gas Raman laser based on large-core anti-resonant hollow-core fiber[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2022, 20(7): 071401
Category: Lasers, Optical Amplifiers, and Laser Optics
Received: Mar. 5, 2022
Accepted: Apr. 18, 2022
Published Online: May. 7, 2022
The Author Email: Fei Yu (yufei@siom.ac.cn)