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Vol. 51, Issue 1, 20220015 (2022)

50^th anniversary of Raman fiber laser: History, progress and prospect (Invited)

Pu Zhou, Tianfu Yao, Chenchen Fan, Yang Li, Xiulu Hao, Yizhu Chen, Xiaoya Ma, Jiangming Xu, Hu Xiao, Jinyong Leng, and Wei Liu

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College of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China

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DOI: 10.3788/IRLA20220015 Cite this Article

Pu Zhou, Tianfu Yao, Chenchen Fan, Yang Li, Xiulu Hao, Yizhu Chen, Xiaoya Ma, Jiangming Xu, Hu Xiao, Jinyong Leng, Wei Liu. 50^th anniversary of Raman fiber laser: History, progress and prospect (Invited)[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2022, 51(1): 20220015 Copy Citation Text

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Setup of the first fiber Raman laser[6]

Fig. 1. Setup of the first fiber Raman laser^[6]

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Structure of cascaded RFLs(a) and typical multi-order Raman output spectra(b) in early years[19]

Fig. 2. Structure of cascaded RFLs(a) and typical multi-order Raman output spectra(b) in early years^[19]

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Fig. 3. (a) Statistics of papers and patent applications related to EDFA and RFA published by OSA and IEEE from 1980 to 2000^[69]; (b) Capacity distance product of transmission experiment of OFC Conference from 1994 to 2003^[69]

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Fig. 4. Experiment setup of the 153 W RFL reported in 2009. WDM: wavelength division multiplexing, FBG: fiber Bragg grating ^[77]

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Fig. 5. Output power development of Raman fiber oscillator in recent years

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Fig. 6. Output power scaling of high-power RFA in recent years

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Fig. 7. Scheme of the experimental setup of ytterbium-doped-Raman-hybrid-gain-fiber amplifier^[102]

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$(a) Experimental scheme of kilowatt RFA with near-diffraction-limited output based on GRIN fiber; (b) Evolution curve of output spot and beam quality with Raman signal power[115]$

Fig. 8. (a) Experimental scheme of kilowatt RFA with near-diffraction-limited output based on GRIN fiber; (b) Evolution curve of output spot and beam quality with Raman signal power^[115]

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Fig. 9. (a) Setup of the cascaded RFA; (b) Spectrum of seed laser; (c) Loss spectrum of Raman fiber^[104]

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Fig. 10. Experimental setup of frequency doubling of RFLs to generate laser at 589 nm^[119]

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Fig. 11. Experimental setup diagram of the HDFLs pumped by RFLs^[129]

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Fig. 12. The trend of output power of RRFL in recent years

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Fig. 13. Experimental setup of RRFL with 1.5 kW output power^[142]

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Fig. 14. Experimental structure of RRFL based on GRIN fiber^[139]

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Fig. 15. Concept diagram of Raman laser beam combining

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Years	Research institute	Power /W	M² in/out	Efficiency	BE	Wavelength /nm	References
说明：表中 “—” 表示该文献中未提供该项数据
2004	Wright Patterson Air Force Base	0.8	7/1.6	6%	1	1 116	[80]
2006	University of Southampton	10.2	4.8/1.2	48%	9.6	1 660	[79]
2009	European Southern Observatory	153	—	85%	—	1 120	[77]
2010	OFS Laboratory	81	—	32%	—	1 480	[86]
2010	European Southern Observatory	100	2/>1.6	62.5%	0.9	1 120	[87]
2013	Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences	3	—	35%	—	980	[88]
2013	National University of Defense Technology	119	—	82%	—	1 173	[89]
2014	Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, CAS	12.3	3.2/1.46	82.7%	2.2	1 658	[90]
2015	University of Southampton	6	22/1.9	9%	9.6	1 120	[91]
2015	University of Southampton	19	22.2/5	48%	5.3	1 019	[91]
2016	Soreq Nuclear Research Center	80	14/5.6	53%	3.5	1 020	[92]
2017	Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences	10	20/1.2	15.4%	40	954	[93]
2017	Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences	17	—	19%	—	954	[94]
2017	Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences	50	26/2.6	27%	25	954	[94]
2017	Soreq Nuclear Research Center	154	19.0/8	65%	3	1 020	[95]
2018	Soreq Nuclear Research Center	135	7.6/2.5	68%	5.6	1 081	[96]
2018	Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences	62	30.0/3	30%	25	954	[97]
2018	Soreq Nuclear Research Center	250	8.4/3.3	60%	3.6	1 080	[98]
2018	Soreq Nuclear Research Center	1 200	8/2.75	85%	7	1 120	[85]

Table 1. Research progress of Raman fiber oscillator in recent years

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Years	Research institute	Power /W	M² in/out	Efficiency	BE	Wavelength /nm	Gain type	References
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2002	University of Southampton	0.05	4.4/—	36%	17.5	1 069	Raman	[78]
2012	Jena University	208	——	87%	——	1 118- 1 130	Raman	[103]
2013	OFS Laboratory	301	——	64%	——	1 480	Raman	[104]
2014	Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, CAS	300	——	70%	——	1 120	Yb-Raman	[105]
2014	Beijing University of Technology	14.3	——	38.5%	——	2 147	Raman	[106]
2014	Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, CAS	1 280	——	70%	——	1 120	Yb-Raman	[102]
2014	National University of Defense Technology	732	——	82.2%	——	1 120	Yb-Raman	[107]
2015	National University of Defense Technology	1 520	——	75.6%	——	1 120	Yb-Raman	[108]
2016	Tsinghua University	3 890	—/1.49	70.9%	——	1 123	Yb-Raman	[83]
2018	National University of Defense Technology	528	10.4/4.2	68%	3.8	1 060	Raman	[109]
2019	National University of Defense Technology	1 002	9.2/5.1	84%	2.6	1 060	Raman	[110]
2019	Tsinghua University	3 700	—/2.18	——	——	1 123	Yb-Raman	[111]
2020	National University of Defense Technology	762.6	6.12/2.24	25%	2.35	1 130	Raman	[112]
2020	National University of Defense Technology	2 087	~13.5/8.9	59.33%	——	1 130	Raman	[113]
2021	National University of Defense Technology	2 034	10.5/2.8	79.35%	11.2	1 130	Raman	[114]
2021	National University of Defense Technology	3 083	~11/5.72	78.7%	2.9	1 131	Raman	[82]

Table 2. Research progress of high-power RFA in recent years

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Years	Research institute	Power /W	Efficiency	Wavelength /nm	References
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2010	Aston University	0.15	—	1 550	[131]
2015	National University of Defense Technology	124	79%	1 146	[130]
2017	National University of Defense Technology	27	—	996	[139]
2017	National University of Defense Technology	491	—	1120	[140]
2018	Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, CAS	100.1	38.4%/27.2%	1 000-1 900	[116]
2019	National University of Defense Technology	985	78.9%	1 150	[141]
2021	National University of Defense Technology	1 570	77.5%	1 120	[142]

Table 3. Research progress of RRFL in recent years

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Pu Zhou, Tianfu Yao, Chenchen Fan, Yang Li, Xiulu Hao, Yizhu Chen, Xiaoya Ma, Jiangming Xu, Hu Xiao, Jinyong Leng, Wei Liu. 50^th anniversary of Raman fiber laser: History, progress and prospect (Invited)[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2022, 51(1): 20220015

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