Highly-stable optical injection wavelength locking of Er-doped random fiber lasers

Abstract A highly-stable and effective Er-doped random fiber laser (RFL) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated based on external optical injection locking technology. By adjusting the optical injected wavelength, the lasing wavelength can be selected precisely and emitted separately within the spectral bandwidth of 1555.5 nm to 1563.5 nm. The wavelength and output power fluctuation are less than 0.004% and 2.9%, respectively, indicating that optical injection locking of the RFL is quite stable over a long time. The optical injection locking technology is used in the half-open cavity incoherent RFL systems based on the random distributed Rayleigh scattering scheme, which provides an effective method to control or select the wavelength emission with high stability in a RFL.