Temperature-controlled mode selection of Er-doped random fiber laser with disordered Bragg gratings

W. L. Zhang; Y. B. Song; X. P. Zeng; R. Ma; Z. J. Yang; Y. J. Rao

doi:10.1364/prj.4.000102

Photonics Research, Volume. 4, Issue 3, 0102(2016)

Temperature-controlled mode selection of Er-doped random fiber laser with disordered Bragg gratings

W. L. Zhang^*, Y. B. Song, X. P. Zeng, R. Ma, Z. J. Yang, and Y. J. Rao

Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing & Communications (Education Ministry of China), University of Electronic Science & Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China

show less

References(18)

[1] D. S. Wiersma. The physics and applications of random lasers. Nat. Phys., 4, 359-367(2008).

[2] J. Andreasen, A. A. Asatryan, L. C. Botten, M. A. Byrne, H. Cao, L. Ge, L. Labonté, P. Sebbah, A. D. Stone, H. E. Türeci, C. Vanneste. Modes of random lasers. Adv. Opt. Photon., 3, 88-127(2010).

[3] J. Liu, P. D. García, S. Ek, N. Gregersen, T. Suhr, M. Schubert, J. Mørk, S. Stobbe, P. Lodahl. Random nanolasing in the Anderson localized regime. Nat. Nanotechnol., 9, 285-289(2014).

[4] S. Gottardo, R. Sapienza, P. D. Garcia, A. Blanco, D. S. Wiersma, C. Lopez. Resonance-driven random lasing. Nat. Photonics, 2, 429-432(2008).

[5] M. Leonetti, C. Conti, C. Lopez. The mode-locking transition of random lasers. Nat. Photonics, 5, 615-617(2011).

[6] N. Bachelard, S. Gigan, X. Noblin, P. Sebbah. Adaptive pumping for spectral control of random lasers. Nat. Phys., 10, 426-431(2014).

[7] S. Turitsyn, S. Babin, D. Churkin, I. Vatnik, M. Nikulin, E. Podivilov. Random distributed feedback fibre lasers. Phys. Rep., 542, 133-193(2014).

[8] D. V. Churkin, S. A. Babin, A. E. El-Taher, P. Harper, S. I. Kablukov, V. Karalekas, J. D. Ania-Castanon, E. V. Podivilov, S. K. Turitsyn. Raman fiber lasers with a random distributed feedback based on Rayleigh scattering. Phys. Rev. A, 82, 003828(2010).

[9] W. L. Zhang, Y. J. Rao, Z. X. Yang, Z. N. Wang, X. H. Jia. Low threshold 2nd-order random lasing of a fiber laser with a half-opened cavity. Opt. Express, 20, 14400-14405(2012).

[10] H. Zhang, P. Zhou, H. Xiao, X. Xu. Efficient Raman fiber laser based on random Rayleigh distributed feedback with record high power. Laser Phys. Lett., 11, 075104(2014).

[11] S. A. Babin, I. D. Vatnik, A. Y. Laptev, M. M. Bubnov, E. M. Dianov. High-efficiency cascaded Raman fiber laser with random distributed feedback. Opt. Express, 22, 24929-24934(2014).

[12] Z. Hu, Q. Zhang, B. Miao, Q. Fu, G. Zou, Y. Chen, Y. Luo, D. Zhang, P. Wang, H. Ming, Q. Zhang. Coherent random fiber laser based on nanoparticles scattering in the extremely weakly scattering regime. Phys. Rev. Lett., 109, 253901(2012).

[13] W. L. Zhang, R. Ma, C. H. Tang, Y. J. Rao, X. P. Zeng, Z. J. Yang, Z. N. Wang, Y. Gong, Y. S. Wang. All optical mode controllable Er-doped random fiber laser with distributed Bragg gratings. Opt. Lett., 40, 3181-3184(2015).

[14] N. Lizárraga, N. P. Puente, E. I. Chaikina, T. A. Leskova, E. R. Méndez. Single-mode Er-doped fiber random laser with distributed Bragg grating feedback. Opt. Express, 17, 395-404(2009).

[15] M. Gagné, R. Kashyap. Demonstration of a 3 mW threshold Er-doped random fiber laser based on a unique fiber Bragg grating. Opt. Express, 17, 19067-19074(2009).

[16] L. Wang, X. Dong, P. P. Shum, X. Liu, H. Su. Random laser with multiphase-shifted Bragg grating in Er/Yb-codoped fiber. J. Lightwave Technol., 33, 95-99(2015).

[17] W. L. Zhang, S. W. Li, R. Ma, Y. J. Rao, Y. Y. Zhu, Z. N. Wang, X. H. Jia, J. Li. Random distributed feedback fiber laser based on combination of Er-doped fiber and single-mode fiber. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron., 21, 44-49(2015).

[18] V. Milner, A. Z. Genack. Photon localization laser: low-threshold lasing in a random amplifying layered medium via wave localization. Phys. Rev. Lett., 94, 073901(2005).

Tools

Get Citation

Copy Citation Text

W. L. Zhang, Y. B. Song, X. P. Zeng, R. Ma, Z. J. Yang, Y. J. Rao. Temperature-controlled mode selection of Er-doped random fiber laser with disordered Bragg gratings[J]. Photonics Research, 2016, 4(3): 0102

Download Citation

EndNote(RIS)BibTex Plain Text

Set citation alerts for article

Save article for my favorites

Paper Information

Special Issue: TERAHERTZ PHOTONICS: APPLICATIONS AND TECHNIQUES

Received: Nov. 17, 2015

Accepted: Jan. 24, 2016

Published Online: Sep. 29, 2016

The Author Email: W. L. Zhang (wl_zhang@aliyun.com)

DOI:10.1364/prj.4.000102

Topics

laser devices and laser physics

Lasers and Laser Optics

Laser physics

laser manufacturing

Instrumentation, Measurement and Metrology