Abstract

A compact random fiber laser based on a short artificial Rayleigh reflector and heavily-doped Er fibers (custom-made and commercial as a reference) has been proposed, characterized and optimized in terms of efficiency, linewidth and noise level. A 10-cm artificial Rayleigh reflector with mean scattering level of +41.3 dB/mm relative to the natural Rayleigh scattering of the host fiber and low insertion loss level (∼0.05 dB/cm at 1535 nm) was fabricated using a femtosecond direct writing technique. Its implementation as a distributed output mirror in a half-open cavity of a 980-nm diode pumped Er-doped fiber laser results in random lasing at 1535 nm in single- and few-mode regimes with power up to 100 mW, slope efficiency up to 16.5%, and signal-to-noise ratio up to 60 dB. A single-frequency regime with ∼10 KHz linewidth was observed at output power up to 2.5 mW. Tunability potential of such random lasers is also demonstrated.

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