Laboratory of Optical Fibers and Micro-nano Photonics, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Measuring Theory and Precision Instrument, School of Instrument Science and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, Anhui, P. R. China
Zhang Xiaojuan
Information Materials and Intelligent Sensing Laboratory of Anhui Province, Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Acquisition and Manipulation of Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Opto-Electronic Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, Anhui, P. R. China
Zhou Kaiming
Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University, BirminghamB4 7ET, UK
Zhang Lin
Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University, BirminghamB4 7ET, UK
Wang Erlei
School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, ZhouKou Normal University, Zhoukou, Henan466000, P. R. China
Du Wenyu
Information Materials and Intelligent Sensing Laboratory of Anhui Province, Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Acquisition and Manipulation of Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Opto-Electronic Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, Anhui, P. R. China
Ma Jiajun
State Key Laboratory of Environmental Friendly Energy Materials, School of Material Science and Technology, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, Sichuan621000, P. R. China
Li Siqi
Information Materials and Intelligent Sensing Laboratory of Anhui Province, Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Acquisition and Manipulation of Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Opto-Electronic Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, Anhui, P. R. China
Xie Kang
School of Opto-Electronic Engineering, Zaozhuang University, Zaozhuang, 277160, Shandong, P. R. China
Yu Benli
Information Materials and Intelligent Sensing Laboratory of Anhui Province, Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Acquisition and Manipulation of Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Opto-Electronic Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, Anhui, P. R. China
Zhang Junxi
Laboratory of Optical Fibers and Micro-nano Photonics, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Measuring Theory and Precision Instrument, School of Instrument Science and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, Anhui, P. R. China
Hu Zhijia
Information Materials and Intelligent Sensing Laboratory of Anhui Province, Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Acquisition and Manipulation of Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Opto-Electronic Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, Anhui, P. R. China
Replica symmetry breaking (RSB) has been widely recognized as a statistical analysis approach to understand the disorder and nonlinear interactions in complex systems ranging from atoms to the cosmic scale. However, it is challenging to analyze the nonlinear optical characteristics of random laser (RL) in disordered gain medium via RSB due to the lack of a general RSB-based statistical analysis framework. In this work, we report the tunable RSB in polymer fiber RL, where the effects of temperature and different structures on RSB are investigated experimentally and theoretically. It experimentally proves that RSB in RL is not robust, and disorder and temperature are responsible for tunable RSB in RL, which contributes to the improvement of the statistical analysis framework for investigating the optical principles of RL using RSB. And the finding of the tunable RSB allows to investigate the dynamical differences for various RL systems, which broadens the directions for the use of spin-glass theory to explore the physical mechanism of RL.
