Modeling of stimulated Brillouin scattering in optical fibers with arbitrary radial index profile

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3509-3516

  McCurdy, Alan H ^a  

^a OFS   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic waveguides; Brillouin scattering; Non linear fiber optics; Optical fiber theory

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; DESIGN; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; LASERS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTIMIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEGUIDES;

ACOUSTIC WAVEGUIDES; FIBER RADIAL INDEX; OPTICAL FIBER THEORY; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 30344475806     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.855876     Document Type: Article

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