title: Chaotic stimulated Brillouin scattering near the threshold in a fiber.
abstract: We investigate the nonlinear dynamic behavior of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) near threshold in the absence of feedback. When a cw Nd:YAG laser is injected into a single-mode optical fiber, the SBS signal exhibits intermittently appearing irregular self-pulsations near the threshold. By examining the time series of the SBS signals, we verify that the irregular SBS signal is one of the chaotic phenomena appearing near the bifurcation point.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Seonam University, Namwon, Jeonbuk 590-711, Korea.
authors.forename: Sang Hun
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Chil-Min
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Kim