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In this paper, a method of choosing mixture medium in two-cell stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) system to improve the system performance is proposed. The Brillouin frequency shift (BFS) of mixture medium varies with the mixing ratio and thus the difference of the BFS between the two cells can be eliminated. The two-cell SBS system with acetone (C3H6O) in its generator cell and mixture liquid of CCl4/C2Cl4 in its amplifier cell is investigated. The C3H6O has a high optical breakdown threshold and the mixture liquid of CCl4/C2Cl4 has a small absorption coefficient and the same BFS as that of C3H6O when the volume fraction of CCl4 is 4%. Compared with two-cell SBS system with the same liquid (C2Cl4) or different liquid (C3H6O and C2Cl4) in generator and amplifier cell, the SBS system with mixture liquid (CCl4/C2Cl4) in amplifier cell and C3H6O in generator cell improves the power-load, energy reflectivity (ER), phase conjugation (PC) fidelity and ER stability.
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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10476009 and 60478020), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 20060390795) and the Program of Excellent Team in Harbin Institute of Technology
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Hasi, W., Lü, Z., Li, Q. et al. Study on two-cell stimulated Brillouin scattering system with mixture medium. SCI CHINA SER G 50, 144–151 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-007-0015-0
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