Picosecond gain-switched polymer fiber random lasers

Wenyu Du; Sen Gao; Xiaojuan Zhang; Siqi Li; Yan Kuai; Zhiqiang Wang; Zhigang Cao; Feng Xu; Yu Liu; Lin Xu; Junxi Zhang; Kang Xie; Benli Yu; Zhijia Hu

doi:10.3788/COL202422.040603

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 22, Issue 4, 040603(2024)

Picosecond gain-switched polymer fiber random lasers

Wenyu Du¹, Sen Gao², Xiaojuan Zhang¹, Siqi Li¹, Yan Kuai¹, Zhiqiang Wang¹, Zhigang Cao¹, Feng Xu¹, Yu Liu¹, Lin Xu¹, Junxi Zhang², Kang Xie³, Benli Yu¹, and Zhijia Hu^1、*

Author Affiliations

¹Information Materials and Intelligent Sensing Laboratory of Anhui Province, Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Acquisition and Manipulation of Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Opto-electronics Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China

²School of Instrument Science and Opto-electronics Engineering, Laboratory of Optical Fibers and Micro-nano Photonics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China

³School of Opto-electronic Engineering, Zaozhuang University, Zaozhuang 277160, China

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Wenyu Du, Sen Gao, Xiaojuan Zhang, Siqi Li, Yan Kuai, Zhiqiang Wang, Zhigang Cao, Feng Xu, Yu Liu, Lin Xu, Junxi Zhang, Kang Xie, Benli Yu, Zhijia Hu, "Picosecond gain-switched polymer fiber random lasers," Chin. Opt. Lett. 22, 040603 (2024)

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