Wavelength control of random polymer fiber laser based on adaptive disorder

Zhijia Hu*, Pengfei Gao, Kang Xie, Yunyun Liang, Haiming Jiang

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Abstract

We demonstrate the realization of two different kinds of random polymer optical fiber lasers to control the random lasing wavelength by changing the disorder of polymer optical fibers (POFs). One is a long-range disorder POF based on copolymer refractive-index inhomogeneity, and the other is a short-range disorder POF based on polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes scattering. By end pumped both disorder POFs, the coherent random lasing for both is observed. Meanwhile, the random lasing wavelength of the short-range disorder POF because of a small scattering mean-free path has been found to be blue shifted with respect to the long-range disorder POF, which will give a way to control the random lasing wavelength.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)6911-6914
Number of pages4
JournalOptics Letters
Volume39
Issue number24
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Dec 2014

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