Abstract

Here, we report the first, to the best of our knowledge, all-fiber gas Raman laser oscillator (AFGRLO), which is formed by fusion splicing solid-core fibers and a hydrogen-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fiber, and further introducing fiber Bragg gratings at a Stokes wavelength. Pumping with a homemade 1.54 µm fiber amplifier seeded by a narrow linewidth diode laser, we obtain the maximum output Stokes power of 1.8 W at 1693 nm by rotational stimulated Raman scattering of hydrogen molecules. Due to the involvement of the resonant cavity, the measured Raman threshold is as low as 0.98 W, which has been reduced nearly 20 times, compared with that of the single-pass structure. Moreover, a numerical model of an AFGRLO is established for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, and the simulations agree well with the experimental results. This Letter is significant for the development of fiber gas Raman lasers (FGRLs), particularly for achieving compact CW FGRLs towards the mid-infrared.

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