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In this paper, a cladding-pumped erbium-ytterbium co-doped random fiber laser (EYRFL) operating at 1550 nm with high power laser diode (LD) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated for the first time. The laser cavity includes a 5-m-long erbium-ytterbium co-doped fiber that serves as the gain medium, as well as a 2-km-long single-mode fiber (SMF) to provide random distributed feedback. As a result, stable 2.14 W of 1550nm random lasing at 9.80 W of 976 nm LD pump power and a linear output with the slope efficiency as 22.7% are generated. This simple and novel random fiber laser could provide a promising way to develop high power 1.5 µm light sources.
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61635005, 61205048, and 61290312), the PCSIRT project (Grant No. IRT1218), the 111 project (Grant No. B14039), and the Sichuan Youth Science and Technology Foundation (Grant No. 2016JQ0034).
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Meng, Q., Wu, H., Han, B. et al. LD-Pumped Random Fiber Laser Based on Erbium-Ytterbium Co-Doped Fiber. Photonic Sens 10, 181–185 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13320-019-0553-x
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