Modeling Brillouin gain spectrum of solid and microstructured optical fibers using a finite element method

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 22-30

  Dasgupta, Sonali ^a   Poletti, Francesco ^a   Liu, Sheng ^a   Petropoulos, Periklis ^a   Richardson, David J ^a   Grüner Nielsen, Lars ^b   Herstrøm, Søren ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b OFS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acoustic waves; acoustooptic effects; fiber nonlinear optics; finite element method; microstructured fibers; photonic crystal fibers; stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTO-OPTIC EFFECT; FIBER NONLINEAR OPTICS; FINITE ELEMENT; MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING (SBS);

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; ACOUSTIC WAVES; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; ULTRASONICS;

STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

EID: 78650912433     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2010.2091106     Document Type: Article

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