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An incoherent fibre laser

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The demonstration of a 'mirrorless' ultralong Raman fibre laser that provides stable, spatially incoherent continuous-wave lasing may prove to be an important new light source for applications in nonlinear optics, sensing and telecommunications.

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Figure 1: Examples of laser cavities.
Figure 2: Illustration of various laser operation mechanisms.

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  1. the Department of Electromagnetism and Telecommunication at the University of Mons, Andrei A. Fotiadi is in the Photonics@be (IAP VI, BelSPo) group, 31 Boulevard Dolez, Mons, B-7000, Belgium, and is also at the Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, St. Petersburg 194021, Russia. andrei.fotiadi@umons.ac.be,

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Fotiadi, A. An incoherent fibre laser. Nature Photon 4, 204–205 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2010.76

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