A theoretical treatment of two approaches to SBS mitigation with two-tone amplification

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 14233-14247

  Dajani, Iyad ^a   Zeringue, Clint ^a   Bronder, T Justin ^a   Shay, Thomas ^a   Gavrielides, Athanasios ^a,b   Robin, Craig ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b European Office of Aerospace Research and Development   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SEPARATION; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

CONVENTIONAL FIBERS; COUPLED NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; OPTIMAL OPERATING CONDITIONS; SELF CONSISTENT MODELING; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING (SBS); THEORETICAL TREATMENTS; TWO-POINT BOUNDARY PROBLEMS; WAVELENGTH SEPARATION;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLID STATE LASER; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AMPLIFIERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 51149098530     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.014233     Document Type: Article

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