Stimulated Brillouin scattering in optical fibers

Advances in Optics and Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-59

  Kobyakov, Andrey ^a   Sauer, Michael ^a   Chowdhury, Dipak ^a  

^a Corning Incorporated Science and Technology Division ^*  (France)

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DOI: 10.1364/AOP.2.000001     Document Type: Review

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