Design concept for optical fibers with enhanced SBS threshold

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 5338-5346

  Kobyakov, Andrey ^a   Kumar, Shiva ^a   Chowdhury, Dipak Q ^a   Ruffin, A Boh ^a   Sauer, Michael ^a   Bickham, Scott R ^a   Mishra, Raj ^b  

^a Corning Incorporated Science and Technology Division ^*  (United States)

^b Corning Incorporated Coming Optical Fiber MS 6 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL EFFECTS; FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTICS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL DESIGN; PHASE MODULATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

BRILLOUIN GAIN SPECTRUM; BRILLOUIN SHIFT FREQUENCY; FIBER DESIGN AND FABRICATION; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING (SBS);

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

EID: 22744432106     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.005338     Document Type: Article

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