Noise initiation of stimulated Brillouin scattering
- 1 November 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 42 (9), 5514-5521
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.42.5514
Abstract
We describe a theoretical model that shows how stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is initiated by thermally excited acoustic waves distributed within a Brillouin-active medium. This model predicts how the SBS reflectivity, Stokes linewidth, and fluctuations in Stokes intensity depend upon the laser intensity and upon the physical properties of the SBS medium. This model also leads to the prediction that the value of the single-pass gain (i.e., G=gIL) at the threshold for SBS is not a universal number, but depends upon the laser frequency and on the properties of the SBS medium. For typical organic liquids at room temperature, G is in the range 20–25.Keywords
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