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Generation of large-scale spatio-temporal coherent structures caused by stimulated Brillouin backscattering of a narrow-band laser wave in a large-gain one-dimensional nonlinear medium is studied by comparing the numerical simulations and the analytical asymptotics of the three-wave resonant model to actual experiments in a single-mode optical-fiber. This comparison recently allowed us to predict [1] and to perform the first experimental observation [2] of the “superluminous” Brillouin soliton backward propagating with respect to the cw pump in an optical-fiber ring-cavity.
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Montes, C., Picholle, E., Botineau, J., Legrand, O., Leycuras, C. (1991). Dissipative superluminous Brillouin solitons in an optical-fiber ring cavity. In: Remoissenet, M., Peyrand, M. (eds) Nonlinear Coherent Structures in Physics and Biology. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 393. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54890-4_153
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