Brillouin gain in optical fibers with inhomogeneous acoustic velocity

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7195, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ward, Benjamin G ^a   Spring, Justin B ^a  

^a UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber Lasers; Fiber Optics; Power scaling; Stimulated Brillouin scattering

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC LENS; ACOUSTIC VELOCITY; ACOUSTO-OPTIC; BRILLOUIN GAIN; BRILLOUIN GAIN SPECTRUM; EFFECTIVE AREA; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FOCAL LENGTHS; GAIN AMPLITUDE; GAIN SPECTRA; HIGHER-ORDER MODES; IN-FIBER; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL; NONLINEAR PROCESS; OUTPUT POWER; POWER SCALING; SBS THRESHOLD; SINGLE TRANSVERSE MODES; SINGLE-FREQUENCY; STEP-INDEX FIBERS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LASERS; LENSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; POWER SPECTRUM; SCATTERING; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; ULTRASONICS;

FIBERS;

EID: 65649089447     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.812882     Document Type: Conference Paper

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