When a Brillouin-shifted signal interacts with a two strong counterpropagating pump beams
in a Brillouin active medium, a conjugate field will grow exponentially in time until it depletes …

Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is the most important example of a stimulated scattering
process-light scattering that occurs when the intensity of the light field itself affects the …

Heavy fluorocarbon liquids were found to be an ideal medium for high-power stimulated
Brillouin scattering experiments. Fluorinert FC-75 gives high reflectivity, near 98%, and …

The current trends in stimulated Brillouin scattering and optical phase conjugation are
overviewed. This report is formed by the selected papers presented in the “Fifth International …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the development and progress of stimulated
scattering studies over the past four to five decades. The chapter focuses on the principles …

Phase conjugation by Brillouin scattering in SF/sub 6/gas has been implemented on a two-
pass KrF amplifier to provide near-diffraction-limited output pulses having a very low …

KrF laser-pumped backward Brillouin amplification of nanosecond pulses at 248 nm is
investigated both experimentally and numerically. Gain and saturation of the amplifier …

We demonstrate Brillouin amplification of sub-phonon lifetime Stokes pulses based on an
active frequency matching method. The main purpose is to extend Brillouin amplification to …

The use of an optical cavity containing a stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) phase-
conjugate reflector to control the spatial and spectral output of a long pulse (> 100 ns) X-ray …

Experimental measurements are presented that show that the stimulated Brillouin scattering
gain of methane, and hence the nature of the competition between stimulated Brillouin …