Using a cavity mode model we study numerically the impact of bandwidth and spectral response profile of fibre Bragg gratings on four-wave-mixing-induced spectral broadening of radiation generated in 6 km and 22 km SMF-based Raman fibre lasers.

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IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.

• J.-C. Bouteiller, “Spectral modeling of Raman fiber lasers,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 15(12), 1698–1700 (2003). [CrossRef]

J. Lightwave Technol.

• R. Vallée, E. Bélanger, B. Déry, M. Bernier, and D. Faucher, “Highly Efficient and High-Power Raman Fiber Laser Based on Broadband Chirped Fiber Bragg Gratings,” J. Lightwave Technol. 24(12), 5039–5043 (2006). [CrossRef]

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B

• S. A. Babin, D. V. Churkin, A. E. Ismagulov, S. I. Kablukov, and E. V. Podivilov, “Four-wave-mixing-induced turbulent spectral broadening in a long Raman fiber laser,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 24(8), 1729–1738 (2007). [CrossRef]

Meas. Sci. Technol.

• Y. Wang and H. Po, “Characteristics of fibre Bragg gratings and influences on high-power Raman fibre lasers,” Meas. Sci. Technol. 14(6), 883–891 (2003). [CrossRef]

Opt. Commun.

• P. Suret and S. Randoux, “Influence of spectral broadening on steady characteristics of Raman fiber lasers: From experiments to questions about validity of usual models,” Opt. Commun. 237(1–3), 201–212 (2004). [CrossRef]

Opt. Express

• V. Karalekas, J. D. Ania-Castañón, P. Harper, S. A. Babin, E. V. Podivilov, and S. K. Turitsyn, “Impact of nonlinear spectral broadening in ultra-long Raman fibre lasers,” Opt. Express 15(25), 16690–16695 (2007), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-15-25-16690 . [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Opt. Fiber Technol.

• S. V. Smirnov, J. D. Ania Castanon, T. J. Ellingham, S. M. Kobtsev, S. Kukarin, and S. K. Turitsyn, “Optical spectral broadening and supercontinuum generation in telecom applications,” Opt. Fiber Technol. 12(2), 122–147 (2006). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. A

• E. G. Turitsyna, G. Falkovich, V. K. Mezentsev, and S. K. Turitsyn, “Optical turbulence and spectral condensate in long-fiber lasers,” Phys. Rev. A 80(3), 031804 (2009). [CrossRef]
• S. A. Babin, V. Karalekas, E. V. Podivilov, V. K. Mezentsev, P. Harper, J. D. Ania-Castañón, and S. K. Turitsyn, “Turbulent broadening of optical spectra in ultralong Raman fiber lasers,” Phys. Rev. A 77(3), 033803 (2008). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. Lett.

• J. D. Ania-Castañón, T. J. Ellingham, R. Ibbotson, X. Chen, L. Zhang, and S. K. Turitsyn, “Ultralong Raman fiber lasers as virtually lossless optical media,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 96(2), 023902 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• J. D. Ania-Castañón, V. Karalekas, P. Harper, and S. K. Turitsyn, “Simultaneous Spatial and Spectral Transparency in Ultralong Fiber Lasers,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 101(12), 123903 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Phys. Usp.

• M. Zheltikov, “Let there be white light: supercontinuum generation by ultra short laser pulses,” Phys. Usp. 49(6), 605 (2006). [CrossRef]

Rev. Mod. Phys.

• J. Dudley, G. Genty, and S. Coen, “Supercontinuum generation in photonics crystal fibre,” Rev. Mod. Phys. 78(4), 1135–1184 (2006). [CrossRef]

Other

• L. F. Mollenauer, and J. P. Gordon, Solitons in Optical Fibers: Fundamentals and Applications (Academic Press (2006).
• A. Hasegawa, and Y. Kodama, Solitons in Optical Communications (Clarendon, Oxford, 1995).
• V. E. Zakharov, and E. S. Wabnitz, Optical Solitons: Theoretical Challenges and Industrial Perspectives (Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1998).
• R. R. Alfano, The Supercontinuum Laser Source: Fundamentals with Updated References (Springer, New York, 2005)
• V. E. Zakharov, V. S. L’vov, and G. E. Falkovich, Kolmogorov Spectra of Turbulence I: Wave Turbulence (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1992).
• G. E. Falkovich, “Introduction to Turbulence Theory Lecture Notes on Turbulence and Coherent Structures in Fluids”, Plasmas and Nonlinear Media Vol. 4 (World Scientific, Singapore, 2006).

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