Random lasing in an Anderson localizing optical fiber

Behnam Abaie; Esmaeil Mobini; Salman Karbasi; Thomas Hawkins; John Ballato; Arash Mafi

doi:10.1038/lsa.2017.41

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Random lasing in an Anderson localizing optical fiber

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- Random lasing in an Anderson localizing optical fiber
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 6, Issue 3, (2017)
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  1.Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
  2.Center for High Technology Materials, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87106, USA
  3.Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, USA
  4.Center for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies (COMSET) and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29625, USA
- Author bio：
  
  A Mafi, Email: mafi@unm.edu
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2017.41
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- Published：2017-09，
  
  Published Online：10 March 2017，
  
  Received：09 November 2016，
  
  Revised：06 March 2017，
  
  Accepted：08 March 2017
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Abaie, B. et al. Random lasing in an Anderson localizing optical fiber. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e17041 (2017).
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Abaie, B. et al. Random lasing in an Anderson localizing optical fiber. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e17041 (2017). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2017.41.

摘要

Abstract

A directional random laser mediated by transverse Anderson localization in a disordered glass optical fiber is reported. Previous demonstrations of random lasers have found limited applications because of their multi-directionality and chaotic fluctuations in the laser emission. The random laser presented in this paper operates in the Anderson localization regime. The disorder induced localized states form isolated local channels that make the output laser beam highly directional and stabilize its spectrum. The strong transverse disorder and longitudinal invariance result in isolated lasing modes with negligible interaction with their surroundings

traveling back and forth in a Fabry–Perot cavity formed by the air–fiber interfaces. It is shown that if a localized input pump is scanned across the disordered fiber input facet

the output laser signal follows the transverse position of the pump. Moreover

a uniformly distributed pump across the input facet of the disordered fiber generates a laser signal with very low spatial coherence that can be of practical importance in many optical platforms including image transport with fiber bundles.

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Keywords

disordered optical fiberrandom lasingtransverse Anderson localization

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