Random lasers with tunable angular spectra for high contrast imaging

TL;DR

This paper presents a novel random laser with tunable angular spectra, enabling high-contrast, speckle-free biological imaging by adjusting the laser's emission pattern through microcavity pumping.

Contribution

It introduces a new design of random laser with tunable angular spectra using asymmetric microcavities coupled with optical fibers, enhancing imaging contrast and stability.

Findings

Achieved tunable ring-shaped angular spectra in the laser output.

Demonstrated high-contrast, speckle-free biological imaging.

Proved stable operation independent of pumping direction.

Abstract

Random lasers with low spatial coherence have important potential applications in high quality imaging and displaying. Here, a random laser with tunable angular spectra is proposed and fabricated through directly coupling an asymmetric microcavity with a commercial optical fiber. The designed random laser demonstrates pumping direction-independence property in working threshold, and good storage stability.More importantly, the angular spectrum can be adjusted by pumping different microcavities on the fiber, the output random lasing with ring-shape in momentum space are used as illumination source for biological imaging. An excellent image with speckle-free and higher contrast is achieved due to the low spatial frequency-free of the illumination source even relative to that of the common white lighting. The results indicate that the designed random laser has great application values in the fields of high-resolution biological imaging, integration optics and smart sensing.