{"title":"Stabilized High-Order Mode Brillouin Random Fiber Laser Using a Self-Matched Dynamic Fiber Grating","authors":"Weiyu Pan;Liang Zhang;Yichun Li;Yu Chen;Caojun Zhang;Jianxiang Wen;Wei Chen;Mengshi Zhu;Heming Wei;Fufei Pang;Tingyun Wang","doi":"10.1109/LPT.2025.3584893","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We propose and experimentally demonstrate a stable high-order mode (HOM) Brillouin random fiber laser based on randomly distributed Rayleigh scattering in few-mode fibers. Taking advantage of a few-mode erbium-doped fiber-based dynamic fiber grating with self-matched spatial mode, mode hopping of HOM Stokes random laser can be significantly suppressed, benefiting prominent intensity noise reduction and laser frequency stabilization. Results show that, the power fluctuation of the proposed laser with few-mode dynamic fiber grating is reduced by 50%, while the variance of the laser frequency fluctuations within 1000 milliseconds has been optimized down to 0.15. Notably, the LP11 mode of the laser output achieves a purity exceeding 95% with fluctuations reduced by 56.9%. It is believed that the proposed HOM laser would be promising for applications in optical fiber communication and fiber sensing.","PeriodicalId":13065,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Photonics Technology Letters","volume":"37 19","pages":"1129-1132"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Photonics Technology Letters","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11063275/","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We propose and experimentally demonstrate a stable high-order mode (HOM) Brillouin random fiber laser based on randomly distributed Rayleigh scattering in few-mode fibers. Taking advantage of a few-mode erbium-doped fiber-based dynamic fiber grating with self-matched spatial mode, mode hopping of HOM Stokes random laser can be significantly suppressed, benefiting prominent intensity noise reduction and laser frequency stabilization. Results show that, the power fluctuation of the proposed laser with few-mode dynamic fiber grating is reduced by 50%, while the variance of the laser frequency fluctuations within 1000 milliseconds has been optimized down to 0.15. Notably, the LP11 mode of the laser output achieves a purity exceeding 95% with fluctuations reduced by 56.9%. It is believed that the proposed HOM laser would be promising for applications in optical fiber communication and fiber sensing.
期刊介绍:
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters addresses all aspects of the IEEE Photonics Society Constitutional Field of Interest with emphasis on photonic/lightwave components and applications, laser physics and systems and laser/electro-optics technology. Examples of subject areas for the above areas of concentration are integrated optic and optoelectronic devices, high-power laser arrays (e.g. diode, CO2), free electron lasers, solid, state lasers, laser materials'' interactions and femtosecond laser techniques. The letters journal publishes engineering, applied physics and physics oriented papers. Emphasis is on rapid publication of timely manuscripts. A goal is to provide a focal point of quality engineering-oriented papers in the electro-optics field not found in other rapid-publication journals.