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Stimulated Brillouin scattering in an inhomogeneous amplifier cell: a self-consistent solution approach

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In this paper, the amplification of the injected Stokes wave in inhomogeneous media has been studied. Numerical calculations based on a self-consistent solution of the Maxwell equations for the electric fields and the Navier–stokes equation for the acoustic fields are used to explain the amplification of the Stokes waves. To consider inhomogeneous media, the SBS amplifier cell is divided into several parts by transparent thin surfaces with uniform density distribution. This process was applied to several configurations of SBS gain factor changes in the cell, including exponential and linear changes in Brillouin gain factor according to the subdivision within the cell, and the results were compared. The results show that the length of the medium plays an essential role in the growth of SBS performance. Also, by the optimum selection of the gain profile, a non-uniform gas pressure distribution in the SBS cell can improve the energy reflectivity and the optical breakdown threshold.

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Jaberi, M., Panahibakhsh, S. Stimulated Brillouin scattering in an inhomogeneous amplifier cell: a self-consistent solution approach. Eur. Phys. J. D 77, 53 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-023-00625-5

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