Cascaded random distributed feedback Raman fiber laser operating at 1.2 μm

We demonstrate a CW random distributed feedback Raman fiber laser operating in a 1.2 mu m spectral band. The laser generates up to 3.8 W of the quasi-CW radiation at 1175 nm with the narrow spectrum of 1 nm. Conversion efficiency reaches 60%. Up to 1 W is generated at the second Stokes wavelength of 1242 nm. It is shown that the generation spectrum of RDFB Raman fiber laser is much narrower than the spectrum in the system without a weak random feedback. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America