title: Fiber laser using a microsphere resonator as a feedback element.
abstract: We show that a glass microsphere resonator can be used as a wavelength-selective mirror in fiber lasers. Due to their high quality factor (Q approximately 10(8)), microsphere resonators possess a narrow reflection bandwidth. This feature enables construction of single-frequency fiber lasers even when the laser cavity is long. Nonlinear effects (such as stimulated Raman lasing) were also observed in our setup at relatively low pump powers.
authors.affiliation: College of Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
authors.forename: Khanh
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kieu
authors.forename: Masud
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mansuripur