Noise Performance and Long-Term Stability of Near- and Mid-IR Gas-Filled Fiber Raman Lasers
Yazhou Wang, Abubakar I. Adamu, Manoj K. Dasa, José Enrique Antonio-Lopez, Md. Selim Habib, Rodrigo Amezcua‐Correa, Ole Bang, Christos Markos
Abstract
In this letter, the characteristics of noise and long-term stability of near- and mid-infrared (near-IR and mid-IR) gas-filled fiber Raman lasers have been investigated for the first time. The results reveal that an increase in Raman pulse energy is associated with a decrease in noise, and that the relative pulse peak intensity noise (RIN) is always lower than the relative pulse energy noise (REN). We also demonstrate that long-term drift of the pulse energy and peak power are directly linked with the high amount of heat release during the Raman Stokes generation. The demonstrated noise and long-term stability performance provide necessary references for potential spectroscopic applications as well as further improvements of the emerging mid-IR gas-filled hollow-core fiber (HCF) Raman laser technology.