Low-threshold continuous operation of fiber gas Raman laser based on large-core anti-resonant hollow-core fiber

Xinyue Zhu; Fei Yu; Dakun Wu; Yan Feng; Shufen Chen; Yi Jiang; Lili Hu

doi:10.3788/COL202220.071401

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

Xinyue Zhu^1,2, Fei Yu^2,3、*, Dakun Wu³, Yan Feng^2,3, Shufen Chen¹, Yi Jiang¹, and Lili Hu^2,3

Author Affiliations

¹School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

²Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

³Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS, Hangzhou 310024, China

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Paper Information

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)

DOI:10.3788/COL202220.071401

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