title: Stimulated Brillouin scattering continuous wave phase conjugation in step-index fiber optics.
abstract: Continuous wave (CW) stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) phase conjugation in step-index optical fibers was studied experimentally and modeled as a function of fiber length. A phase conjugate fidelity over 80% was measured from SBS in a 40 m fiber using a pinhole technique. Fidelity decreases with fiber length, and a fiber with a numerical aperture (NA) of 0.06 was found to generate good phase conjugation fidelity over longer lengths than a fiber with 0.13 NA. Modeling and experiment support previous work showing the maximum interaction length which yields a high fidelity phase conjugate beam is inversely proportional to the fiber NA(2), but find that fidelity remains high over much longer fiber lengths than previous models calculated. Conditions for SBS beam cleanup in step-index fibers are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Engineering Physics, Air Force Institute of Technology, 2950 Hobson Way, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433, USA. smassey@afit.edu
authors.forename: Steven M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Massey
authors.forename: Justin B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Spring
authors.forename: Timothy H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Russell
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008027:Light; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D055100:Optical Fibers; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012542:Scattering, Radiation