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Optica Advanced Photonics Congress

Random Raman Supercontinuum fiber laser

Frédéric Monet, Raman Kashyap

Published Jan 1, 2022• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate the generation of a supercontinuum from modulation instability and Raman self-frequency shift in a distributed feedback random Raman fiber laser. This laser has the potential for random number generation at Tbps speeds.
DOI
10.1364/np.2022.npm2e.4

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