Title :
Ultra-long fibre-based random lasers
Author_Institution :
Aston Inst. of Photonic Technol., Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK
Abstract :
The emerging science and applications of ultra-long random fibre lasers will be overviewed. The lasers with cavity length up to several hundred km exploit random distributed feedback provided by Rayleigh scattering amplified through Raman effect.
Keywords :
Raman spectra; Rayleigh scattering; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser feedback; Raman effect; Rayleigh scattering; cavity length; random distributed feedback; ultra-long random fibre lasers; Distributed feedback devices; Fiber lasers; Laser feedback; Laser theory; Optical fiber amplifiers; Waveguide lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
