Regulation of a pulsed random fiber laser in the Q-switched regime

A random fiber laser with regulated Q-switched pulses has been proposed and realized through a half-open cavity, which is formed between a compound fiber-based optic ring resonator (ORR) and a segment of 500 m dispersion compensation fiber (DCF). The compound fiber-based ORR provides frequency filtered feedback, which together with Brillouin scattering of the DCF forms a Q-switched mechanism. As a result, Q-switched pulses are generated randomly. Nevertheless, each Q-switched event typically consists of several ordered sub-pulses with the same pulse interval thanks to resonant interferences of the compound fiber-based ORR. Compared with former reports, the shape and the interval of pulses in each Q-switch event are regulated greatly.