Effect of acoustic wave inertia and its implication to slow light via stimulated Brillouin scattering in an extended medium

V. I. Kovalev; N. E. Kotova; R. G. Harrison

doi:10.1364/OE.17.002826

Effect of acoustic wave inertia and its implication to slow light via stimulated Brillouin scattering in an extended medium

V. I. Kovalev, N. E. Kotova, R. G. Harrison

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An analytical solution of the basic coupled stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) equations is obtained which describes the evolution of a Stokes pulse injected into an extended Brillouin medium excited by CW pump radiation. We show that regardless of the pulse length of the input Stokes pulse the delay of the output Stokes pulse results entirely from the inertia of the acoustic wave excitation via the electrostrictive interaction of the Stokes pulse with CW pump radiation. This delay is the SBS build up time and not the SBS induced group delay normally attributed to slow light. © 2009 Optical Society of America.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2826-2833
Number of pages	8
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	17
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.002826
Publication status	Published - 16 Feb 2009

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Effect of acoustic wave inertia and its implication to slow light via stimulated Brillouin scattering in an extended medium

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