Aparanji, Santosh and Balaswamy, V and Arun, S and Supradeepa, VR (2018) Observation of a rainbow of visible colors in a near infrared cascaded Raman fiber laser and its novel application as a diagnostic tool for length resolved spectral analysis. In: NONLINEAR FREQUENCY GENERATION AND CONVERSION: MATERIALS AND DEVICES XVII, JAN 29-31, 2018, San Francisco, CA.
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Abstract
In this work, we report and analyse the surprising observation of a rainbow of visible colors, spanning 390nm to 620nm, in silica-based, Near Infrared, continuous-wave, cascaded Raman fiber lasers. The cascaded Raman laser is pumped at 1117nm at around 200W and at full power we obtain -100 W at 1480nm. With increasing pump power at 1117nm, the fiber constituting the Raman laser glows in various hues along its length. From spectroscopic analysis of the emitted visible light, it was identified to be harmonic and sum-frequency components of various locally propagating wavelength components. In addition to third harmonic components, surprisingly, even 2nd harmonic components were observed. Despite being a continuous-wave laser, we expect the phase-matching occurring between the core-propagating NIR light with the cladding-propagating visible wavelengths and the intensity fluctuations characteristic of Raman lasers to have played a major role in generation of visible light. In addition, this surprising generation of visible light provides us a powerful non-contact method to deduce the spectrum of light propagating in the fiber. Using static images of the fiber captured by a standard visible camera such as a DSLR, we demonstrate novel, image-processing based techniques to deduce the wavelength component propagating in the fiber at any given spatial location. This provides a powerful diagnostic tool for both length and power resolved spectral analysis in Raman fiber lasers. This helps accurate prediction of the optimal length of fiber required for complete and efficient conversion to a given Stokes wavelength.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper |
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| Series.: | Proceedings of SPIE |
| Publisher: | SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING |
| Additional Information: | Conference on Nonlinear Frequency Generation and Conversion - Materials and Devices XVII, San Francisco, CA, JAN 29-31, 2018 |
| Keywords: | Lasers; Lasers; fiber; Lasers; ytterbium; Scattering; Raman; Lasers; Raman; Nonlinear wave mixing; Spectrum analysis; Harmonic generation and mixing; Image analysis; Visible lasers |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Centre for Nano Science and Engineering |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Jan 2019 10:15 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Aug 2021 09:00 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/61511 |
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